A
Discourse
vpon
the
present
estate
of
France
.
MOst
men
doo
say
,
that
it
is
a
pleasure
to
behold
from
the
shore
,
the
waues
to
swell
,
and
to
marke
from
the
land
howe
the
storme
and
the
windes
play
with
the
Sea
.
I
beleeue
it
well
:
and
it
is
as
much
to
say
,
as
that
it
is
better
to
see
a
daunger
a
farre
off
,
then
to
be
in
it
.
But
if
from
the
toppe
of
a
Cliffe
I
should
perceiue
a
shippe
wherein
either
I
had
a
share
,
or
my
friends
were
enclosed
,
in
daunger
of
being
cast
away
,
and
without
helpe
,
caried
against
the
rocks
by
the
currants
and
tempest
;
what
a
griefe
were
it
vnto
me
,
to
finde
my selfe
at
such
a
spectacle
.
If
France
were
nothing
vnto
me
,
and
I
knew
her
state
as
exactly
as
I
doo
,
it
were
no
matter
vnto
me
to
discourse
of
it
:
when
men
shoulde
bring
me
the
newes
,
I
would
take
them
indifferently
:
yea
I
should
receiue
them
without
any
passion
,
being
otherwise
glad
to
be
out
of
her
broiles
,
and
heare
talke
of
her
stirrings
with
as
little
commotion
and
feare
,
as
if
one
should
rehearse
vnto
me
things
that
happened
at
Rome
vnder
Tiberius
or
Nero.
I
can
not
being
a
Frenchman
:
no
I
cannot
so
do
,
seeing
the
onely
barke
of
my
hope
,
the
vessel
wherein
I
haue
all
that
which
is
dearest
vnto
me
,
and
which
of
it selfe
is
dearer
vnto
me
than
my selfe
,
now
see
runne
to
wreake
my
countrie
,
my
first
mother
,
whom
such
sundrie
diseases
haue
brought
to
extremity
,
hardly
panting
out
her
last
gaspe
.
But
there
is
no
remedie
:
yet
some
parte
of
the
griefe
passeth
away
with
crying
:
and
such
wordes
as
sorrow
wresteth
out
of
our
hearts
,
are
more
violent
then
those
which
ioy
bringeth
forth
.
If
at
anie
time
in
our
affliction
wee
sigh
out
some
extraordinarie
speeches
,
witnesses
of
our
griefe
,
they
are
more
listened
vnto
,
then
if
they
came
from
a
carelesse
minde
,
quailed
with
continuall
contentations
:
which
also
bringeth
forth
no
other
then
vulgar
matter
.
These
accordingly
shall
deserue
commendation
of
their
matter
onely
,
and
not
for
any
order
or
methode
.
Others
doo
seruice
vnto
their
countrey
with
their
bodies
&
goods
.
They
doo
well
,
seeing
they
bee
able
:
as
for
me
,
I
can
but
lament
mine
owne
,
I
bestow
onely
my
teares
on
her
,
hauing
nothing
else
left
that
might
stande
her
in
any
steede
:
I
commend
those
men
,
let
them
not
blame
mee
:
I
will
doo
as
they
doo
when
I
shal
be
able
:
and
they
as
I
do
,
when
they
are
brought
to
this
passe
.
My
Dicaeus
,
lying
idle
in
the
countrie
whether
other
businesses
had
lead
mee
,
I
heard
the
first
reporte
of
the
kinges
driuing
out
of
Paris
by
the
Duke
of
Guize
.
As
all
matters
are
made
greater
,
according
as
men
esteeme
of
them
,
so
was
there
this
first
report
.
Euerie
one
doth
bring
foorth
his
passions
in
steed
of
comments
,
vpon
such
newes
as
are
told
him
.
I
know
not
whether
being
infected
with
this
common
vice
,
I
did
presently
glose
vppon
this
reporte
:
well
doo
I
remember
,
that
euen
then
I
answered
vnto
some
that
were
speaking
to
me
of
it
,
that
I
could
scarse
beleeue
that
the
matter
was
fallen
out
so
rawly
,
although
I
did
esteeme
the
one
capable
enough
of
such
a
feare
,
yet
woulde
I
neuer
haue
thought
altogither
such
presumption
to
haue
remained
in
the
other
.
At
that
time
or
soone
after
,
there
were
two
sundry
peeces
of
worke
brought
vnto
mee
:
the
one
is
a
declaration
of
the
King
,
vpon
that
which
happened
against
himselfe
at
Paris
,
the
12
,
of
May
:
but
that
so
colde
,
so
timorous
as
nothing
more
;
much
like
vnto
a
man
that
complaineth
,
and
yet
dare
not
name
him
of
whome
hee
hath
beene
beaten
:
like
vnto
a
man
that
is
afraid
least
that
his
enemy
bee
yet
in
his
choller
,
and
will
not
be
content
with
that
harme
which
he
hath
done
him
alreadie
.
Hee
dare
not
say
that
hee
hath
beene
constrained
to
flie
,
neither
that
he
hath
been
driuen
out
:
he
dareth
not
terme
it
an
iniurie
,
much
lesse
declare
,
that
hee
will
punish
it
.
Hee
commandeth
no
more
his
people
,
but
intreateth
them
.
And
to
make
vp
the
matter
,
(
which
is
the
most
shamefullest
of
all
)
hee
willeth
praiers
to
bee
made
in
the
Churches
,
to
the
ende
that
this
quarrell
may
bee
appeased
,
euen
as
if
hee
should
feare
that
Monsieur
de
Guize
were
offended
that
he
had
not
suffered
himselfe
to
haue
been
taken
in
the
Louure
,
but
fled
away
.
The
other
cleane
contrarie
,
were
two
letters
of
the
Duke
of
Guize
,
the
one
vnto
the
King
,
the
other
publike
,
both
letters
of
a
souldiour
,
braue
ones
,
couragious
,
whereby
he
gallantly
commends
himselfe
of
his
dooing
:
saith
that
God
did
put
that
daie
into
his
hands
the
meanes
of
a
notable
peece
of
seruice
,
rehearses
it
with
few
and
stout
wordes
,
without
anie
shew
of
feare
,
neither
thinking
to
haue
done
amisse
.
Last
of
all
,
hee
concludeth
with
a
resolute
threatning
,
that
in
spight
of
all
the
world
,
he
will
maintaine
the
Catholikes
side
,
and
driue
from
the
king
such
as
doo
fauour
the
Heretikes
,
meaning
the
Duke
of
Espernon
.
My
Dicaeus
,
this
hath
mooued
mee
to
send
them
vnto
you
,
you
are
curious
of
such
matters
:
and
euen
withall
,
the
verie
indignation
hath
drawen
from
me
this
discourse
of
the
state
of
France
,
such
as
it
is
now
a
daies
,
whereby
you
may
iudge
the
better
of
these
two
writinges
.
Publish
it
if
you
thinke
it
good
,
so
that
you
keepe
in
your
name
and
mine
,
for
wee
are
called
to
other
affaires
.
If
not
,
keepe
it
in
your
studie
.
France
is
diuided
into
three
factions
.
The
Duke
of
Guize
and
his
kinsmen
on
the
one
side
:
as
the
dukes
of
Maine
,
of
Aumall
,
of
Elbeuf
,
of
Merceur
,
his
brethren
or
cousins
germaine
,
to
my
iudgement
holde
that
which
seemeth
the
greatest
,
and
that
is
it
,
which
with
their
partakers
,
they
call
the
holie
League
.
The
king
holds
the
second
,
the
most
lawfull
,
but
the
weakest
.
The
king
of
Nauarre
and
some
Catholike
Princes
of
the
bloud
,
My
Lordes
of
Mountmorency
,
chiefe
Officer
of
the
Crowne
,
of
Turraine
,
of
Chastillon
,
and
many
other
noble
men
,
as
well
of
the
religion
as
Catholikes
:
the
third
,
which
may
be
termed
the
iustest
in
deede
,
and
as
yet
the
surest
.
I
call
the
first
,
the
greatest
:
be
it
,
because
there
is
likelihood
that
it
is
deriued
,
and
as
it
were
a
member
of
the
generall
conspiracie
of
all
the
Catholike
Princes
of
Christendome
,
vnited
and
confederat
together
vnder
the
authoritie
of
the
Pope
,
to
make
warre
against
those
which
make
profession
of
the
religion
:
be
it
,
because
this
band
is
newe
,
and
rare
nouelties
doo
for
a
while
carrie
away
all
:
an
argument
whereof
wee
may
gather
in
the
shew
that
the
Protestantes
during
the
first
troubles
made
in
this
Realme
,
where
they
had
seised
vppon
all
the
good
townes
sauing
one
or
two
onelie
,
and
yet
within
the
space
of
one
yeare
they
had
neuer
a
one
left
:
or
finally
,
for
that
it
was
framed
among
the
Catholikes
,
who
doo
in
number
farre
exceede
the
Protestants
,
and
who
,
albeit
they
be
not
wholly
in
all
and
through
al
of
the
League
,
do
yet
notwithstanding
agree
in
this
point
,
that
they
wish
the
preseruation
of
their
religion
,
&
so
seeme
to
fauour
those
that
vndertake
the
defence
thereof
:
all
which
in
deede
do
make
this
first
faction
to
seeme
the
greatest
at
this
time
,
albeit
that
in
troth
it
neither
is
,
neither
can
so
continue
.
I
saide
that
the
kinges
was
the
lawfulest
,
No
man
dare
denie
it
:
So
long
as
according
to
his
owne
will
he
ruled
his
people
,
he
onely
was
obeyed
,
and
so
might
still
be
if
he
list
:
but
this
list
must
come
vpon
him
betimes
,
for
if
it
lingereth
but
a
little
longer
,
and
that
euerie
man
perceiue
that
in
his
dominions
any
man
may
lawfullie
not
onely
disobey
him
,
but
euen
coope
with
him
without
danger
,
he
shall
neuer
recouer
his
authoritie
:
God
hath
planted
the
meanes
in
his
onely
courage
.
I
said
likewise
that
his
faction
was
the
weakest
.
It
is
true
:
albeit
it
seemeth
otherwise
,
yet
it
is
so
,
as
by
sundrie
reasons
we
may
prooue
.
First
,
the
king
who
ruleth
,
hath
so
behaued
himselfe
that
euerie
man
knoweth
that
of
the
three
heads
of
the
three
factions
,
he
is
the
weakest
,
he
standeth
in
greatest
feare
,
hee
dareth
enterprise
least
:
and
contrariwise
,
that
he
is
the
man
against
whome
euerie
man
dare
most
safely
and
easely
vndertake
what
they
list
.
He
I
say
hath
taken
such
a
course
that
now
he
hath
nothing
left
wherewith
to
detaine
the
mindes
of
his
subiects
in
his
obedience
,
sauing
onely
the
auncient
regarde
that
they
haue
of
their
kings
,
together
with
the
custome
of
the
realme
:
which
in
truth
are
most
mightie
meanes
in
a
peaceable
estate
,
and
yet
such
a
ciuill
warre
of
foure
yeares
continuance
onely
,
is
able
as
easely
to
subuert
it
,
as
heretofore
it
hath
don
in
shorter
space
at
Rome
and
all
other
places
where
it
hath
lighted
:
for
it
springeth
onely
of
a
contempt
and
disdaine
of
the
Prince
,
which
are
contrarie
both
to
duetie
and
maiestie
.
And
then
iudge
you
what
one
of
thirtie
yeares
continuance
,
as
ours
is
,
may
be
able
to
doo
.
Secondlie
,
he
is
in
his
Realme
the
declining
sunne
,
and
so
weake
in
his
declination
,
that
euen
in
his
presence
he
seeth
them
dispute
,
both
by
writings
and
weapons
,
of
him
that
shall
rise
after
him
,
In
the
dayes
of
the
Romaine
Caesars
,
it
was
treason
to
speake
of
that
,
that
should
happen
after
the
Emperours
death
:
much
lesse
durst
they
name
him
that
they
thought
should
succeede
.
Tiberius
were
able
to
say
somewhat
hereof
,
who
after
a
certaine
sowne
that
he
fell
into
,
in
his
olde
age
lying
sicke
in
his
bed
was
stifled
by
his
heire
Caligula
,
a
young
&
florishing
Prince
,
for
feare
least
the
old
man
comming
againe
to
himselfe
should
put
him
to
death
,
only
for
that
he
was
saluted
as
Emperour
,
when
all
men
tooke
the
other
to
be
deceased
.
So
great
was
their
power
to
keepe
their
autoritie
inuiolable
euen
to
their
graues
.
The
Ottomans
or
Turkish
Emperours
will
neuer
suffer
their
children
,
whose
possibilities
they
can
not
endure
,
to
come
neere
them
.
But
if
we
must
needes
finde
a
domesticall
example
among
our
owne
kings
:
It
is
said
,
that
the
mightie
king
Francis
,
this
mans
grandfather
,
being
weake
&
sicklie
,
was
in
the
beginning
of
May
in
his
last
yeare
,
at
his
Castle
of
Fontainebleau
,
where
his
sicknes
on
a
time
so
encreased
,
that
he
was
thought
to
bee
dead
,
or
not
like
long
to
liue
:
Sodainely
all
the
Court
came
running
to
the
Dolphin
Henrie
,
who
for
the
like
gelousie
of
succession
durst
not
in
sixe
or
seuen
yeares
come
neere
his
father
:
euery
one
ranne
to
worship
this
new
sonne
,
so
as
almost
no
man
of
account
tarried
about
the
king
.
Well
,
the
king
for
that
time
recouered
,
and
vpon
the
Ascention
day
(
a
verie
solemne
festiuall
daie
in
France
)
beeing
somewhat
eased
of
his
sicknesse
,
this
olde
Prince
ariseth
,
decketh
vp
himselfe
,
commeth
out
of
his
chamber
,
painteth
his
haire
&
his
face
,
to
hide
his
age
&
sicknesse
,
appeareth
himselfe
in
youthfull
attire
,
and
in
this
arraie
commeth
forth
to
procession
,
wherein
himselfe
carrieth
the
Cannopie
ouer
their
Corpus
Domini
,
and
at
his
returne
vseth
these
speeches
,
I
will
scarre
them
once
yet
ere
I
die
.
It
prooued
true
,
the
case
was
altered
:
for
so
soone
as
the
kings
recouerie
was
bruted
abroade
,
all
the
courtiers
came
dropping
in
by
one
,
and
by
one
in
great
feare
,
and
the
Dolphin
yet
once
againe
,
while
his
turne
came
,
remained
as
solitarie
as
his
father
had
done
.
This
it
was
to
be
a
king
:
yea
,
this
it
was
to
be
feared
.
How
manie
landes
be
there
yet
in
the
worlde
,
wherein
it
is
death
to
enquire
who
may
pretend
anie
title
to
the
Crowne
after
the
Princes
decease
,
sith
that
is
the
thing
that
Princes
doo
couet
to
leaue
most
doubtfull
.
Alas
!
It
is
not
so
with
our
king
:
his
weakenesse
hath
giuen
all
the
world
leaue
not
onely
in
his
presence
to
argue
of
his
succession
,
but
also
to
some
to
endeuour
to
force
him
to
prouide
for
it
and
to
make
his
will
,
as
if
there
were
no
more
for
him
to
doo
but
euen
to
die
.
His
faint
heart
and
the
libertie
to
offende
,
haue
brought
all
to
that
passe
,
that
at
this
day
a
Frenchman
may
as
bouldlie
as
a
Spaniard
say
,
I
am
not
on
the
kings
side
:
whereas
thirtie
yeare
agoe
,
such
a
word
had
beene
blasphemie
,
yea
euen
parricide
.
Finally
,
his
want
of
courage
is
so
dishonorable
,
that
my selfe
being
in
a
forraine
lande
in
the
presence
of
a
mightie
Prince
confederate
with
the
Crowne
of
France
,
where
there
was
some
speech
of
our
estate
,
did
heare
one
discoursing
thereof
,
vse
these
words
.
That
our
King
stoode
but
as
an
o
in
Ciphre
,
which
of
it selfe
can
doo
nothing
,
but
being
added
to
anie
other
number
,
encreaseth
the
value
thereof
.
I
heard
it
,
and
with
great
griefe
blushed
thereat
,
euen
for
the
shame
of
our
Nation
,
albeit
the
diuisions
of
our
Realme
which
force
vs
to
extraordinarie
remedies
had
carried
me
thither
for
an
other
purpose
then
the
particular
seruice
thereof
,
neither
was
that
speech
any
hinderance
to
the
matter
that
I
came
about
.
Thirdly
,
he
cannot
assure
him selfe
of
any
of
those
whom
he
thinketh
to
be
on
his
side
:
for
they
are
daunted
,
because
they
see
him
quailed
:
They
dare
not
fixe
themselues
about
him
,
because
they
see
him
totter
.
They
dare
not
earnestly
oppose
them selues
against
those
that
warre
against
him
,
because
they
see
him
suffer
it
,
and
yet
scarse
so
bolde
as
to
complaine
.
In
this
sort
are
all
his
Counsaile
,
all
his
townes
,
and
all
his
subiectes
growne
into
factions
:
And
I
do
verelie
beleeue
that
among
all
those
that
are
about
his
person
,
hee
perceiueth
none
,
except
some
one
or
two
that
are
his
owne
creatures
,
that
hee
dare
assuredlie
trust
:
as
hauing
some
other
particular
meaning
then
he
,
or
taking
part
with
some
one
or
other
of
his
enemies
.
For
so
soone
as
a
king
seemeth
to
feare
any
one
within
his
Realme
,
or
to
mistrust
that
an
other
may
bee
greater
than
himselfe
,
his
Maiestie
is
gone
,
he
is
no
bodie
,
euery
man
hath
recourse
to
the
other
.
Albeit
we
can
not
be
free
,
yet
will
we
haue
but
one
master
:
and
if
that
master
hath
another
master
aboue
him
,
wee
straight
leaue
the
first
to
runne
to
the
last
:
such
is
the
nature
of
man
.
As
for
the
king
of
Nauarres
side
,
the
beginning
of
these
warres
do
proue
it
to
be
the
iustest
:
he
defendeth
himselfe
,
to
defend
it
both
lawfull
and
naturall
,
yea
hee
so
defendeth
himselfe
,
as
forgetting
all
occasions
of
complaint
,
he
alwaies
made
conscience
to
molest
the
king
(
albeit
in
the
middest
of
the
wars
)
whom
he
see
otherwise
busied
against
those
of
the
league
,
notwithstanding
he
knew
certainly
that
all
those
iars
among
them
would
light
vpon
himselfe
.
Neither
hath
hee
so
rested
,
but
so
oft
as
he
might
,
hee
hath
offered
him
both
his
person
and
goods
for
the
recouerie
of
his
authoritie
out
of
the
others
hands
,
with
condition
afterward
to
submit
himselfe
to
whatsoeuer
forme
of
peace
that
his
maiestie
woulde
prescribe
:
he
hath
offered
it
,
yea
euen
since
the
last
commotions
,
notwithstanding
in
all
this
warre
he
hath
had
a
thousand
&
a
thousand
occasions
to
prooue
that
he
is
not
to
trust
any
but
God
and
his
sword
.
I
haue
also
very
great
reasons
to
tearme
this
as
yet
the
surest
.
First
his
person
is
a
great
helpe
:
for
his
enimies
haue
done
him
that
fauour
to
teach
him
to
bee
a
Captaine
.
And
surely
so
hee
is
,
yea
such
a
one
as
may
compare
with
the
mightiest
that
euer
was
,
and
albeit
it
hath
cost
him
somewhat
,
yet
hath
his
apprentishippe
cost
them
more
:
his
partakers
are
more
stedfast
,
they
regard
none
but
him
,
and
are
retained
by
the
dutie
of
conscience
,
which
hath
vnited
them
togither
,
either
for
religion
,
or
because
they
find
themselues
entred
into
a
iust
cause
:
hauing
had
a
better
proofe
of
his
partakers
,
hee
cannot
feare
any
greater
brunts
then
he
hath
already
borne
,
neither
can
his
enimies
practise
any
nouelties
against
him
:
And
if
this
thirde
side
had
couragiously
assailed
the
other
two
,
as
they
both
haue
done
it
,
they
had
bin
better
shaken
then
this
is
.
Moreouer
he
hath
atchieued
right
of
naturall
succession
to
this
realme
,
which
no
particular
person
doth
any
way
challeng
against
him
:
so
that
albeit
all
France
were
agreed
to
take
from
him
the
crowne
when
it
should
fal
,
yet
could
ther
be
none
that
ought
to
haue
it
in
his
stead
:
for
it
is
a
great
aduantage
to
haue
no
certaine
aduersarie
.
These
vndoubted
hopes
do
purchase
him
manie
seruants
,
and
retaine
him
manie
more
,
where
in
the
meane
time
many
mens
mindes
,
who
are
loath
to
see
the
alteration
of
the
auncient
forme
of
their
common
wealth
:
being
assured
that
it
cannot
bee
compassed
without
violence
,
are
glad
to
rest
vppon
him
,
who
comming
in
by
the
ordinarie
gate
needeth
not
to
make
any
breach
.
This
is
at
this
day
the
order
that
is
in
the
disorders
of
the
Realme
of
France
.
These
are
the
principall
factions
alreadie
ordered
and
framed
.
Others
there
be
that
haue
no
set
faction
,
but
so
farre
as
may
stande
with
the
commoditie
of
their
affaires
,
leaning
to
one
of
the
three
,
they
come
in
a
crosse
,
hauing
seuerall
purposes
agreeing
with
the
others
,
as
concerning
the
beginnings
,
though
to
other
endes
.
Of
these
there
are
the
Q.
Mother
,
the
K
of
Spaine
,
the
dukes
of
Lorraine
and
Sauoy
.
These
doo
very
well
agree
in
setting
forward
the
diuisions
of
the
Realme
,
to
the
end
to
dispossesse
the
King
of
Nauarre
,
with
the
Princes
of
the
blood
,
but
not
in
the
patition
.
No.
Each
one
coueteth
the
whole
or
at
the
least
the
greatest
part
.
Other
Catholike
Princes
there
bee
of
the
house
of
Bourbon
that
remaine
with
the
king
&
in
deed
take
his
parte
,
as
being
vnited
in
religion
,
which
is
the
onely
separation
of
the
king
of
Nauarre
,
yet
will
neuer
proceed
so
farre
,
as
to
consent
to
the
aduauncing
of
the
house
of
Lorraine
or
Guize
,
before
their
owne
:
and
in
that
case
will
rather
support
their
elder
,
the
king
of
Nauarre
,
as
the
head
of
their
house
.
These
beare
great
sway
in
France
:
For
were
the
K.
of
Nauarre
away
,
the
succession
of
the
Crowne
should
light
vppon
some
one
of
them
:
which
is
also
a
great
hinderance
to
the
D.
of
Guizes
purposes
.
Besides
all
these
confused
and
yet
seuerall
diuisions
,
wherto
our
mishaps
do
seeme
(
as
I
haue
said
)
to
haue
already
giuen
some
shape
and
rule
,
euerie
of
these
partakers
hath
his
particular
intent
and
proceedings
.
The
Duke
of
Guize
with
those
which
truely
acknowledge
none
of
the
league
in
France
but
him
,
haue
this
intent
and
principall
scope
,
to
seise
vpon
the
estate
,
either
wholly
or
in
part
:
a
councell
which
by
inheritance
his
vncle
the
late
Cardinal
of
Lorraine
hath
engraffed
in
their
familie
.
This
Prince
,
the
sole
author
of
our
broiles
,
had
a
father
and
an
vncle
both
cunning
fellowes
.
When
our
diuisions
first
beganne
in
the
daies
of
the
last
king
Charles
betweene
the
Catholikes
,
and
Protestants
,
and
that
they
perceiued
that
the
Prince
of
C●●de
then
liuing
embraced
the
other
partie
,
themselues
hauing
bene
the
stirrers
vp
of
the
troubles
,
set
themselues
on
the
other
:
and
indeed
the
late
Duke
of
Guize
was
already
become
captaine
of
his
faction
,
hatching
in
his
imagination
,
through
his
brother
the
Cardinals
practises
,
a
secret
intent
to
vsurpe
this
crowne
,
either
for
himselfe
or
his
posteritie
,
whereas
in
respect
of
the
K.
and
his
brothers
minoritie
,
but
especiallie
by
the
ciuill
warres
he
see
the
way
open
.
He
deceased
leauing
this
in
maner
a
child
vnder
tuition
of
the
Cardinall
his
brother
:
from
whom
,
euen
with
his
Milke
he
sucked
the
seedes
of
his
domesticall
ambition
,
which
this
yoong
Eagles
birde
did
so
well
disgest
,
that
in
short
space
all
men
might
perceiue
that
the
least
part
in
him
was
greater
then
his
fathers
loines
.
To
say
the
truth
,
there
are
manie
good
partes
bred
in
him
,
fit
for
great
purposes
,
and
for
my
part
I
alwaies
tooke
this
mans
birth
to
be
fatall
,
and
as
it
were
a
certaine
token
that
God
purposed
the
alteration
of
somewhat
in
our
countrie
.
He
onelie
is
the
whole
league
:
the
rest
of
his
house
are
not
equall
with
him
:
yea
,
they
all
togither
are
not
able
to
performe
the
least
part
of
that
which
hee
enterpriseth
.
Full
of
dissimulation
,
verie
warie
and
discreete
,
and
greater
then
al
the
rest
of
his
faction
.
This
dooth
all
the
world
perceiue
by
the
effectes
.
I
haue
founde
it
in
his
writings
,
and
vnder
his
owne
hand
in
a
matter
of
great
importance
:
where
had
it
not
beene
for
him
,
one
of
the
greatest
of
his
partakers
,
next
him selfe
had
like
to
haue
committed
a
grosse
ouerfight
.
This
is
his
intent
and
purpose
.
Now
let
vs
see
his
proceedings
,
and
how
hee
behaueth
himselfe
.
His
mischiefe
was
this
,
that
entring
into
a
world
of
affaires
,
there
yet
remained
manie
children
in
France
,
and
those
in
a
manner
of
his
owne
age
,
who
all
were
capable
of
succession
each
after
other
,
of
mariage
,
and
of
children
,
which
might
haue
beene
enough
to
haue
daunted
him
:
howbeit
all
this
notwithstanding
,
beginning
to
feele
his
owne
courage
he
was
nothing
astonished
:
but
for
a
time
disguising
his
drifts
,
he
was
content
onelie
to
lay
anker
hold
,
and
in
the
meane
time
to
insinuate
himselfe
into
the
Catholike
faction
,
according
to
the
instructions
of
his
familie
,
wherein
fortune
was
his
friend
:
besides
,
he
is
of
great
valour
,
&
some
of
his
enterprises
haue
good
successe
,
so
that
togither
with
the
fame
and
memorie
of
his
father
,
he
by
&
by
framed
himselfe
,
through
the
ciuill
warres
which
his
vncle
the
Cardinal
still
kindled
,
by
one
meanes
or
other
,
to
bee
chiefe
of
the
Catholike
faction
,
carrying
fauour
to
those
townes
especiallie
,
which
the
massacres
had
continued
verie
seditious
and
troublesome
:
and
he
stood
stil
in
feare
of
a
Protestant
Prince
,
whose
citizens
hee
entreated
with
great
familiaritie
,
courtesie
,
and
popular
behauiors
,
(
the
chiefest
and
most
assured
tokens
of
a
mind
that
aspireth
to
tirannie
)
.
The
late
king
Charles
deceased
without
issue
,
and
this
king
married
,
but
hath
no
children
:
moreouer
,
he
seemeth
that
the
Crowne
wanteth
heires
in
direct
line
,
and
that
the
Collaterals
are
called
,
whereupon
he
draweth
neere
,
and
already
sheweth
tokens
that
hee
craueth
a
part
.
It
was
giuen
out
in
that
he
is
the
very
stocke
of
Charles
the
great
,
those
of
Valois
are
of
the
house
of
Capet
,
who
vsurped
the
Crowne
of
France
from
his
house
,
whereby
there
was
some
likelihood
that
he
would
scarce
tarrie
the
death
of
the
king
now
raigning
,
and
his
brother
,
the
remnants
of
the
children
of
France
,
before
he
pleaded
his
succession
against
the
Collaterals
,
but
would
euen
preuent
them
.
Nowe
was
there
nothing
more
against
him
then
peace
,
for
leaning
onelie
vppon
the
factious
Catholikes
,
and
seditious
townes
faction
:
he
should
therby
lose
his
credit
,
except
the
controuersie
were
renewed
against
the
Protestants
.
For
as
it
is
a
plaine
case
,
that
as
ciuill
warre
nourisheth
diuers
factions
in
a
state
,
euen
as
certaine
it
is
that
a
long
peace
ouerthroweth
them
all
,
except
the
kings
:
so
as
his
onely
remedie
consisted
in
stirring
vp
of
coales
,
and
returning
vs
vnto
our
ciuill
weapons
,
and
then
to
enterprise
according
as
occasion
might
serue
.
And
in
deede
in
the
yeare
1578
,
hee
made
such
a
league
as
this
last
,
but
then
was
the
king
in
his
full
authoritie
▪
and
Monsieur
his
brother
aliue
,
who
retained
a
number
of
french
mindes
,
and
so
consequently
kept
him
short
of
a
manie
:
It
was
straightwaie
quenched
,
and
wee
rid
of
it
for
a
little
warre
against
the
Huguonets
,
which
soone
after
was
appeased
.
Thus
was
France
quiet
for
two
or
three
yeares
:
during
the
which
,
it
was
incredible
how
many
matters
his
troublesome
,
ambitious
,
&
consequently
,
couragious
stomack
endured
,
suffering
himselfe
to
be
pulled
downe
,
and
eate
and
dronke
in
diuers
maners
,
so
to
eschew
all
suspition
of
this
practise
,
which
during
the
time
of
the
peace
,
and
the
kings
ablolute
authoritie
,
he
so
cunninglie
dissembled
,
that
many
which
knew
not
the
last
reasons
of
this
obstinate
patience
,
the
token
of
a
long
and
prophane
practise
,
did
euen
contemne
him
.
In
the
ende
Monsieur
the
kinges
brother
,
who
was
a
great
blocke
in
his
waie
,
died
.
He
bare
him
some
displeasure
vppon
other
occasions
:
for
as
he
practised
somewhat
about
the
state
of
Flanders
,
so
this
man
hauing
priuate
intelligence
with
the
king
of
Spaine
,
plaied
him
some
badde
partes
thereabout
:
so
that
if
he
had
liued
(
I
haue
heard
some
saie
)
that
he
would
haue
beene
on
the
duke
of
Guizes
iacke
:
in
whose
time
at
the
least
,
it
had
beene
hard
for
him
to
haue
enterprised
anie
thing
in
France
.
This
death
,
whether
it
were
by
chance
or
through
any
practise
,
came
well
on
his
side
:
I
saie
through
any
practise
,
because
the
araigments
&
depositions
of
the
lord
of
Salcede
haue
kept
many
in
doubt
of
such
a
matter
.
Immediatly
vpon
Monsieurs
buriall
,
when
there
was
none
but
the
king
left
,
hee
thought
that
hee
had
gotten
fit
occasion
to
atchieue
the
practise
which
his
father
and
vncle
began
thirtie
yeares
agoe
,
which
him selfe
also
with
so
great
labour
had
nowe
brought
to
this
passe
.
Some
were
of
opinion
that
about
the
same
time
hee
had
practised
somewhat
against
the
kings
life
:
others
that
hee
grounded
him selfe
only
vpon
some
vaine
hope
and
protestations
sent
him
out
of
all
quarters
,
which
assured
him
of
the
kings
speedie
death
:
But
howsoeuer
it
was
,
he
did
not
thinke
it
conuenient
,
the
state
should
be
quiet
at
the
Princes
decease
,
as
knowing
verie
well
that
in
France
a
king
neuer
dieth
,
because
that
so
soone
as
one
is
gone
,
there
is
an
other
straightway
in
his
place
,
who
at
his
entrie
would
ouerthrow
whatsoeuer
the
purposes
that
any
man
could
commence
against
him
:
and
therefore
that
it
was
requisite
he
should
beare
weapons
against
the
heire
euen
before
the
kings
death
,
and
so
be
armed
with
the
late
kinges
name
and
authoritie
.
According
therefore
vnto
these
fatherly
preceptes
:
and
with
his
owne
domesticall
meanes
he
began
to
trouble
this
Realme
againe
in
the
yeare
1585.
beginning
first
with
the
king
:
whom
because
he
could
not
by
any
persuasions
induce
to
make
warre
vpon
the
king
of
Nauarre
,
he
thought
to
constraine
by
force
.
His
pretences
are
,
that
the
king
hath
no
children
,
so
as
the
Crowne
is
like
to
fall
vnto
Heretiques
,
whereby
hee
and
all
other
the
Catholikes
of
France
are
put
in
a
fright
,
especially
seeing
the
Protestant
Captaines
(
so
noting
the
king
of
Nauarre
)
are
in
fauour
and
haue
their
secrete
intelligences
with
the
chiefest
and
those
that
are
neerest
about
the
kings
person
.
This
hee
spake
of
the
Duke
of
Espernon
,
who
was
lately
returned
out
of
Guienne
where
he
had
seene
the
king
of
Nauarre
.
Finally
,
verie
fitlie
vsing
the
feare
that
he
had
put
the
king
in
:
corrupting
all
his
Councell
,
and
al
that
were
about
his
person
,
hee
causeth
warre
to
be
denounced
to
the
king
of
Nauarre
and
the
Protestantes
,
which
lasteth
yet
to
this
day
:
through
the
whole
course
whereof
I
imagine
that
he
seeketh
no
more
but
some
occasion
once
to
attempt
,
(
as
his
fact
at
Paris
well
testifieth
:
)
for
as
he
weeneth
,
he
needeth
no
more
but
that
.
Well
,
the
warres
being
thus
open
against
the
king
of
Nauarre
euen
by
the
kinges
aduise
,
consent
,
and
authoritie
,
yet
will
it
not
suffice
,
These
are
daylie
labours
.
This
Prince
is
stout
:
of
great
valour
,
he
hath
goods
plentie
,
and
manie
friendes
.
There
is
nowe
nothing
to
be
gotten
of
him
but
stripes
.
As
for
his
person
it
is
safe
enough
,
if
they
neither
murder
,
nor
poison
him
,
as
God
forbid
they
should
.
And
for
his
townes
,
twelue
Realmes
of
France
will
neuer
be
able
to
take
them
all
.
Yea
,
had
he
lost
all
but
his
sword
,
when
soeuer
God
should
call
him
to
this
Realme
,
yet
were
that
enough
.
How
many
kinges
haue
there
beene
fecht
both
out
of
prisons
and
Monasteries
to
their
sacring
.
In
our
dayes
wee
haue
seene
Charles
the
seuenth
,
who
was
banished
into
the
Mountaines
of
Auuergne
,
crowned
.
Lewes
the
twelfth
was
yet
in
manner
prisoner
in
the
great
tower
of
Bourges
when
he
was
proclaimed
king
:
neither
is
it
credible
by
anie
humaine
apparance
that
the
king
of
Nauarre
should
euer
bee
brought
so
lowe
:
and
yet
will
not
all
this
suffice
.
A
lawfull
right
in
succession
is
a
marueilous
point
.
These
considerations
doo
breake
the
Dukes
ambitious
braine
.
He
seeth
that
he
must
not
onely
make
the
place
for
the
Crowne
voide
,
but
also
he
must
make
himselfe
capable
both
to
enter
and
vsurpe
.
The
one
consisteth
chiefely
in
the
king
of
Nauarres
subuersion
,
the
other
in
the
encrease
of
his
owne
wealth
and
credit
,
which
will
grow
on
but
slenderly
,
so
long
as
he
is
content
with
gouerning
the
armies
vnder
the
kings
authoritie
,
and
of
himselfe
to
warre
against
the
Protestants
.
A
thousand
other
things
there
are
that
may
fall
out
in
such
an
enterprise
,
which
would
vtterly
disgrace
all
his
affaires
:
and
as
I
haue
saide
,
there
is
not
much
to
bee
wonne
from
those
that
knowe
howe
to
defende
themselues
.
Againe
he
mistrusted
,
that
sith
he
had
perforce
brought
the
king
into
this
warre
,
he
would
neuer
furnish
him
of
thinges
necessarie
for
the
performance
thereof
,
but
against
his
will
,
and
yet
that
so
long
as
himselfe
had
the
leading
of
the
armies
(
if
he
compassed
not
such
effectes
as
might
be
woorthie
the
great
hope
and
brags
that
he
had
giuen
foorth
)
he
were
quite
ouerthrowen
.
These
things
considered
,
he
was
content
to
send
his
brother
into
Guyenne
against
the
king
of
Nauarre
,
while
himselfe
did
here
set
vpon
the
kings
person
:
at
whose
hande
he
first
hoped
by
sinister
meanes
to
gaine
more
,
&
with
lesse
losse
.
Hereupon
at
his
brother
the
Duke
of
Maines
returne
out
of
Guienne
,
where
he
had
done
nothing
but
encreased
the
credit
of
the
king
of
Nauar
&
his
lieutenant
general
the
lord
of
Turraine
,
with
whom
he
had
chieflie
had
to
do
,
they
both
togither
with
their
kinsmen
and
partakers
doe
openly
set
at
iarre
with
the
king
:
albeit
still
vnder
their
generall
pretence
,
viz.
of
warring
against
the
heretikes
:
whereupon
the
holines
of
their
weapons
did
depende
,
and
whereby
they
still
retayned
the
catholike
faction
on
their
side
.
Nowe
at
the
first
blush
,
to
set
vpon
the
king
it
is
a
shame
:
they
can
haue
no
colour
.
There
is
neuer
a
prince
of
the
bloud
among
them
,
neither
is
any
of
them
so
great
an
officer
of
the
crowne
,
as
that
it
may
beseeme
him
to
reforme
the
king
&
the
realme
:
and
yet
without
this
,
their
generall
pretence
against
him
is
to
no
purpose
.
The
king
is
no
catholike
,
he
is
superstitious
:
he
hateth
not
the
Huguonets
▪
the
Huguonets
are
poyson
vnto
him
,
he
thinketh
it
a
sinne
to
talke
with
any
of
them
,
and
that
day
that
he
hath
so
done
he
must
goe
to
shrift
:
hee
hath
brought
more
of
them
to
their
ends
then
the
Duke
of
Guize
hath
seene
:
he
hath
done
them
more
harme
than
the
duke
of
Guize
wisheth
them
,
&
of
him
haue
they
more
cause
to
complaine
than
of
any
of
the
league
,
the
heads
whereof
haue
alwayes
shewed
more
fauor
and
courtesie
to
them
particularly
than
he
,
a
commendation
which
cannot
be
denied
them
.
What
is
the
remedy
then
?
Immediatly
vpon
the
duke
of
Maines
returne
out
of
Guienne
he
publisheth
a
libell
against
the
Marshall
of
Matignon
the
kinges
lieutenant
in
that
prouince
,
whom
the
king
had
ioyned
with
him
in
office
:
wherin
he
accuseth
him
of
treason
and
intelligence
with
the
king
of
Nauarre
&
the
protestants
:
&
that
(
saith
he
)
was
the
cause
that
in
all
that
iorney
he
could
performe
no
great
matter
:
yea
he
accuseth
him
so
couertly
that
he
also
taxeth
the
king
,
of
whom
he
complaineth
,
saying
that
he
cut
him
short
of
coyne
,
victuals
and
munition
,
and
so
taketh
from
him
all
meanes
to
atchiue
anie
thing
:
yea
he
proceedeth
so
far
,
as
to
say
that
he
is
the
best
friend
that
the
heretikes
could
haue
.
Hereupon
the
duke
of
Guize
on
the
other
side
crieth
out
,
that
it
is
the
D.
of
Espernon
,
who
for
malice
toward
him
fauoreth
his
enimie
the
king
of
Nauar
,
and
therefore
restraineth
the
king
&
maketh
him
to
haue
no
care
of
this
warre
:
thus
for
that
he
dareth
not
beat
the
master
he
striketh
the
dog
.
That
man
,
saith
he
,
is
the
support
of
al
the
heretiks
in
France
,
&
so
he
stirreth
vp
all
the
world
against
him
:
and
presumptuouslie
he
protesteth
that
he
will
not
suffer
him
to
haue
any
part
,
towne
or
gouernement
in
France
.
Yea
albeit
the
kings
garde
be
free
of
all
suspition
of
heresie
,
yet
because
that
lord
had
the
rule
of
them
,
he
causeth
them
twise
or
thrise
to
be
assaulted
&
ouerthrowen
in
Picardie
:
and
vpon
this
pretence
doth
he
as
well
in
that
gouernement
as
else
where
seise
vpon
as
many
townes
as
he
may
.
Well
,
the
king
would
peruert
him
,
and
retaine
his
townes
in
obedience
,
&
to
that
end
doth
vse
such
power
as
he
hath
about
him
▪
which
are
(
as
I
said
)
his
gards
&
those
regiments
wherof
the
duke
of
Espernon
is
coronell
.
Hereupon
is
the
quarrell
proclaimed
against
the
king
himself
,
&
things
brought
to
such
passe
that
the
duke
of
Aumale
besiegeth
Bulloin
,
the
duke
of
Guize
taketh
Paris
,
expelleth
the
king
,
slaieth
,
taketh
and
strippeth
his
guards
,
as
himselfe
boasteth
.
By
his
account
euerie
one
that
hath
any
townes
or
gouernements
which
he
will
not
hold
to
his
vse
,
is
an
heretike
:
whosoeuer
endeuoureth
to
keep
him
from
the
kingdome
is
an
heretike
:
These
be
new
articles
of
faith
.
It
is
said
that
the
D.
of
Espernon
hath
since
resigned
his
gouernements
into
the
kings
hands
:
namely
that
of
Normandy
,
which
was
giuen
to
the
D.
of
Monpensier
,
I
know
not
whether
it
may
make
him
an
heretike
also
:
which
were
somwhat
strange
.
Wel
,
to
conclude
this
matter
:
the
D.
of
Guizes
intent
is
to
be
king
if
he
can
,
his
proceedings
and
meanes
are
the
ciuill
wars
and
diuision
of
the
french
catholikes
against
the
protestants
,
whereby
he
becommeth
captaine
of
the
first
,
with
whome
hee
is
in
greater
credite
then
the
king
himselfe
,
or
any
catholike
Prince
of
the
blood
.
Herein
let
them
not
mistake
:
for
of
these
two
things
by
his
deuises
hee
hopeth
for
one
:
either
so
to
satisfie
himselfe
during
the
kings
life
,
and
so
to
settle
his
affaires
that
after
his
decease
he
may
ouerthrow
the
king
of
Nauar
&
keep
him
from
the
estate
:
or
else
,
if
he
cannot
keepe
him
from
it
,
at
the
least
to
force
him
to
parley
with
him
,
who
wil
stil
be
protector
of
the
catholike
faction
,
&
that
now
without
example
:
for
it
hee
once
ouerthrow
him
,
and
with
him
the
rest
of
his
house
,
this
must
needs
ensue
(
for
the
one
dependeth
vpon
the
other
)
that
either
he
will
possesse
the
kingdome
alone
,
or
else
he
will
deuide
it
with
his
partakers
,
stil
keeping
the
greatest
and
best
part
to
himselfe
.
To
this
banquet
doth
he
inuite
the
king
of
Spaine
,
the
Pope
,
the
Potentates
of
Italy
,
and
al
catholike
princes
near
hand
,
to
whom
the
mightines
of
the
realm
is
as
preiudicial
the
kings
prosperity
and
the
king
of
Nauars
hope
is
as
greatly
to
be
feared
,
as
the
ouerthrow
of
either
of
them
is
to
them
profitable
.
But
the
verie
worst
that
I
see
in
this
practise
is
,
that
hee
can
in
no
sort
beare
with
the
kings
long
life
,
wherof
he
had
need
to
take
heed
:
&
I
beleeue
that
if
hee
had
stayed
but
a
while
longer
in
Paris
,
the
matter
had
beene
dispatched
.
But
howsoeuer
it
is
,
I
suppose
that
that
is
the
thing
which
at
this
time
dooth
most
trouble
the
one
and
scarre
the
other
.
He
that
shall
now
call
to
mind
that
he
that
is
now
king
of
France
is
the
same
person
that
wan
the
battails
when
he
was
but
seuenteene
or
eighteene
yeares
old
,
who
neuer
came
in
place
but
hee
had
the
victorie
,
whose
valor
and
reputation
euen
in
the
spring
of
his
youth
purchased
him
forraine
Crownes
,
yea
crownes
ouer
the
most
warlike
nation
that
wee
knowe
in
the
worlde
,
cannot
but
hee
must
acknowledge
that
the
onelie
slacknesse
and
mistrust
of
his
owne
power
,
which
through
the
impression
of
others
haue
seised
vpon
this
sometimes
so
valiant
a
heart
,
is
the
whip
wherwith
God
at
this
day
scourgeth
our
realme
.
Of
this
Prince
wee
must
needs
say
,
that
had
hee
beene
borne
in
a
good
worlde
:
had
hee
had
seruants
worthie
himselfe
,
which
had
loued
his
mightinesse
:
had
they
not
euen
in
his
nonage
caused
him
to
take
the
affaires
in
hand
with
paine
,
and
pleasures
with
ease
,
which
maketh
him
now
to
hate
the
one
and
loue
the
other
:
had
no
man
since
ceased
his
gouernement
,
and
molested
his
minde
,
God
had
vndoubtedly
indewed
him
with
great
good
partes
,
whereby
he
might
haue
compassed
great
matters
:
but
his
mothers
passions
,
who
sought
to
aduance
him
,
to
the
end
he
might
stand
her
in
stead
,
with
her
other
sonne
,
thrust
him
forth
to
labour
when
he
should
haue
giuen
himselfe
to
pleasure
:
glutted
him
with
honour
before
he
had
any
stomacke
to
euill
,
and
brought
him
out
of
tast
with
ambition
before
he
had
any
minde
of
it
.
Besides
al
this
,
if
a
man
may
lawfully
note
any
imperfection
in
him
,
this
is
it
,
that
he
hath
beene
somewhat
giuen
to
loue
his
ease
and
rest
,
which
is
a
common
vice
,
not
in
Princes
onely
,
but
also
in
most
men
.
In
fine
,
comming
to
the
crowne
,
he
found
the
realme
full
of
licentiousnesse
,
which
the
long
ciuil
wars
had
brought
in
:
and
replenished
with
factions
and
disobedience
:
he
found
all
his
greatest
lords
infected
with
seuerall
purposes
,
in
lieu
of
one
generall
minde
that
they
ought
to
haue
beene
off
for
his
seruice
:
and
hereto
was
his
owne
patience
a
great
furtherance
,
as
hauing
this
imperfection
,
that
hee
found
no
resistance
,
if
he
were
not
crossed
,
or
if
he
liued
in
peace
,
hee
would
deale
absolutely
&
with
great
maiesty
:
but
if
he
met
with
neuer
so
little
difficulty
,
he
alwaies
preferred
a
soft
and
feareful
remedie
before
boldnesse
and
seueritie
,
whereto
also
the
mind
of
one
of
his
chiefe
counsailers
of
estate
,
who
hath
likewise
had
most
gouernement
ouer
him
●
hath
beene
a
great
helpe
to
inure
him
.
Hee
is
the
first
king
that
euer
the
captaines
and
gouernors
of
his
holds
compounded
withall
,
or
demanded
money
of
to
giue
them
vp
:
I
meane
not
those
onely
,
whom
the
ielousie
of
the
ciuil
wars
had
made
partial
,
but
the
others
also
that
haue
alwaies
taken
his
part
.
He
is
the
first
king
whom
men
might
boldly
without
feare
offend
.
For
,
for
my
part
that
which
another
would
peraduenture
in
a
king
terme
clemencie
and
mercie
,
and
which
particularly
he
would
commend
in
this
man
,
because
he
neuer
sought
greatly
to
reuenge
such
iniuries
as
many
had
committed
against
him
,
I
would
sometimes
;
especially
when
it
doth
exceed
,
call
negligence
:
which
is
preiudiciall
to
his
maiestie
,
and
which
if
it
be
not
to
be
reproued
,
is
not
at
the
least
greatly
to
be
commended
in
a
prince
.
Albeit
this
is
to
be
granted
,
that
when
these
miserable
wars
began
againe
,
God
had
put
sundrie
good
motions
in
his
minde
,
and
hee
was
entred
into
a
way
fully
to
reforme
his
realme
,
and
relieue
his
people
,
so
as
those
of
the
league
had
neuer
committed
other
trespasse
in
France
then
this
breaking
of
his
good
intents
,
yet
haue
they
heaped
a
wonderfull
burthen
of
cursses
vpon
their
owne
heads
.
Wel
,
now
to
returne
to
the
present
estate
wherein
he
now
standeth
,
and
his
purposes
:
vndoubtedly
he
hath
such
as
are
most
lawful
,
for
they
tend
onely
to
the
preseruation
of
his
life
,
&
maintenance
of
that
authoritie
which
God
hath
giuen
him
,
howbeit
in
the
conduct
of
them
he
hath
a
very
bad
cause
,
cruell
to
his
people
,
noisome
to
his
realme
and
dangerous
to
himselfe
,
as
the
effect
doth
sufficiently
shew
.
This
mightie
prince
doth
as
well
know
whereat
the
D.
of
Guize
shooteth
as
another
:
and
hee
hath
reason
,
sith
it
is
at
himselfe
that
he
chiefely
aimeth
,
albeit
being
miscounsailed
he
hath
hitherto
taken
but
a
crooked
way
to
withstand
it
.
Indeed
he
is
in
some
sort
to
be
excused
,
as
hauing
no
one
about
him
,
whose
counsaile
is
not
preuented
either
by
desire
or
feare
,
and
hauing
on
his
side
almost
none
but
himselfe
.
When
the
D.
of
Guize
had
thus
armed
himselfe
vnder
the
name
of
the
holy
league
(
a
name
but
too
well
knowne
alredy
in
France
)
they
straightway
propounded
vnto
him
a
most
false
principle
,
viz.
that
in
his
realme
there
were
but
two
factions
,
The
Huguonets
&
the
Catholikes
:
that
vnlesse
hee
woulde
take
vppon
him
the
gouernement
of
the
one
he
should
haue
none
to
take
his
part
,
&
so
according
to
the
prouerbe
,
betweene
two
stooles
the
taile
goeth
to
the
ground
:
That
the
Huguonets
were
the
weakest
and
therefore
that
consequently
it
were
best
for
him
to
ioine
with
the
catholiks
,
for
in
so
doing
he
should
win
to
himself
all
the
credit
which
the
house
of
Guize
had
alredie
gotten
,
which
would
be
their
destruction
and
his
preseruation
:
that
for
the
atchiuing
hereof
he
must
shew
himselfe
most
passionate
&
cruell
to
the
heretikes
,
&
make
war
vpon
them
in
earnest
,
yea
&
exceed
al
men
in
wishing
their
harme
:
and
that
by
that
onely
meanes
reclaiming
al
the
catholike
faction
to
himself
,
&
taking
vpon
him
to
be
head
thereof
,
he
might
with
ease
both
ouerthrow
the
house
of
Guize
which
he
both
feared
&
hated
,
&
by
war
rid
himself
of
the
Huguonets
and
their
captaines
,
to
whom
he
wished
no
great
good
.
This
was
their
counsaile
,
which
is
to
the
great
preiudice
both
of
his
realme
and
himselfe
,
he
hath
hitherto
beleeued
:
God
grant
he
may
now
consider
of
it
,
&
perceiue
that
the
effects
therof
in
lieu
of
making
him
,
as
hee
was
perswaded
,
captaine
of
the
catholike
faction
,
haue
now
brought
him
to
be
the
onely
minister
of
the
D.
of
Guizes
passions
:
in
such
sort
that
so
soon
as
the
other
did
but
stir
against
him
,
he
beleeued
,
that
to
diminish
his
credite
&
meanes
,
he
must
needs
shew
himself
very
busie
against
Huguonets
&
thervpon
with
notable
commissions
,
terrible
edicts
,
&
mighty
armies
shew
himself
rigorous
to
those
that
feare
&
honor
him
,
and
which
offer
him
no
iniury
,
&
fauorable
to
those
that
deuour
him
at
his
owne
gate
.
Thus
so
soone
as
he
had
receiued
some
cracke
by
those
of
the
league
,
as
soone
as
they
began
some
mutinie
against
him
,
or
that
they
seised
vpon
any
town
of
his
,
so
soone
I
say
,
might
the
king
of
Nauar
be
sure
that
he
would
be
vpon
his
iacke
,
and
with
all
send
an
armie
against
him
.
Oh
blinde
Prince
,
that
thought
that
those
men
which
willingly
would
haue
seene
him
dead
,
grounded
themselues
but
vpon
one
pretence
,
and
in
case
that
should
faile
him
,
hee
would
wrest
from
them
by
imagination
that
which
by
force
he
durst
not
proue
!
Curssed
be
you
that
giue
him
counsaile
.
Are
yee
not
ashamed
yee
traiterous
counsailers
?
must
a
king
suffer
factions
in
his
estate
?
must
he
needs
haue
any
other
than
his
owne
?
Is
it
not
a
goodly
part
to
be
a
king
?
If
you
say
that
these
two
factions
were
there
alredy
,
and
past
remedy
:
O
ye
wretches
,
who
brought
them
in
but
your selues
,
that
still
do
norish
them
?
Is
not
ciuill
warre
the
mother
of
these
factions
:
cease
that
,
and
you
shall
see
them
flie
.
Let
a
king
keepe
himselfe
in
his
strength
,
and
kinglike
say
,
I
will
haue
peace
,
and
you
shall
see
that
the
boldest
of
these
partakers
durst
not
gainesay
it
:
if
he
must
needs
make
warre
,
let
it
be
against
him
that
would
hinder
the
peace
,
and
hee
will
soone
ouercome
him
.
Neuerthelesse
,
according
to
this
principle
,
they
made
him
to
beleeue
that
there
was
no
safetie
for
him
vnlesse
himselfe
would
vndertake
the
same
pretence
,
as
the
fauourer
of
the
league
:
also
that
it
were
requisite
that
he
should
in
apparance
shew
himselfe
more
earnest
against
the
protestants
than
they
:
That
the
catholikes
were
alredie
vnited
with
the
D.
of
Guize
against
the
others
:
That
the
onely
meanes
to
disunite
them
,
was
to
take
the
D.
of
Guizes
place
,
and
thunder
against
the
Huguonets
.
This
was
his
beliefe
&
his
counsaile
.
In
the
meane
time
together
with
this
perswasion
,
feare
seised
vpon
him
:
yea
such
a
feare
as
was
chiefely
grounded
vpon
a
iust
mistrust
of
those
whom
he
had
euen
about
him
:
so
as
so
soone
as
he
sawe
the
league
armed
,
the
gates
of
Paris
were
scarce
sure
enough
for
him
,
himselfe
visited
them
,
and
wheras
he
might
with
his
onely
countenance
haue
sent
all
the
authors
of
this
mutinie
an
hundred
foot
vnder
ground
,
so
soone
as
he
heard
of
it
he
was
amased
:
he
by
&
by
sent
his
mother
to
them
to
desire
them
to
be
content
:
to
excuse
him
,
for
that
in
the
time
of
peace
he
made
not
so
great
account
of
them
as
he
ought
:
to
promise
that
hereafter
he
would
content
them
,
yea
that
they
should
but
aske
&
al
should
be
granted
them
.
To
be
short
,
he
did
in
a
maner
humble
himself
before
his
subiects
,
to
the
end
to
keepe
them
from
mutining
against
him
;
wheras
it
had
bin
his
part
to
haue
taught
them
,
that
he
both
would
&
could
punish
their
rebellion
.
Al
this
notwithstanding
he
had
no
great
mind
to
the
war
,
as
wisely
considering
that
it
was
a
diminishing
of
his
authoritie
,
and
if
he
feared
it
against
the
league
,
hee
was
not
desirous
of
it
against
the
protestantes
:
but
at
length
being
ouercome
by
his
mother
,
who
had
other
drifts
in
her
braine
then
hee
,
and
almost
by
all
that
were
about
him
,
he
grew
to
a
finall
acco●de
with
the
Duke
of
Guize
,
and
perforce
consented
to
the
war
against
the
K.
of
Nauar
,
vnto
whom
not
one
moneth
before
he
had
by
thirty
letters
of
his
owne
hande
testified
his
owne
iudgement
of
the
intents
of
those
of
the
league
.
This
hath
beene
the
counsaile
that
the
king
hath
hitherto
had
.
Now
there
is
no
doubt
but
he
could
haue
wished
the
king
of
Nauarre
to
haue
bene
strong
inough
to
haue
forced
both
the
others
&
himselfe
to
grow
to
peace
:
but
of
his
owne
motion
to
propound
it
he
neuer
durst
:
for
had
hee
done
it
,
he
looked
straight
to
haue
beene
stifeled
by
the
mutinous
faction
of
the
league
.
Well
,
hee
mindeth
to
liue
,
to
reigne
and
to
be
obeyed
as
well
of
the
protestants
as
of
those
of
the
league
.
A
desire
both
iust
and
reasonable
,
and
so
he
might
,
if
he
wold
:
but
with
these
pernitious
principles
,
sith
himselfe
calleth
his
power
into
question
,
and
dare
not
doo
the
part
of
a
king
,
let
him
not
thinke
it
strange
that
others
should
enterprise
to
counterfeit
his
person
.
God
grant
that
at
length
he
may
earnestly
desire
to
be
that
he
is
,
that
is
,
the
master
and
greatest
lord
of
his
realme
:
but
this
can
not
be
,
vnlesse
he
be
king
,
and
that
shall
he
neuer
be
,
except
hee
resolue
himselfe
to
wish
the
wealth
and
peace
of
his
people
.
As
touching
the
king
of
Nauarre
,
his
condition
and
intent
,
it
is
cleane
contrarie
or
differing
from
both
the
others
,
of
which
I
haue
alreadie
spoken
.
Euen
as
he
agreeth
with
the
kings
purpose
in
the
behalfe
of
preseruing
of
his
life
and
authoritie
,
where
against
he
neither
could
,
neither
would
attempt
any
thing
:
so
likewise
hee
differeth
from
him
in
that
that
concerneth
the
libertie
of
the
churches
of
France
,
for
the
which
the
war
is
made
against
himselfe
,
whiles
hee
goeth
about
to
release
them
from
it
.
But
he
is
euery
way
contrary
&
opposite
vnto
the
enterprises
of
the
duke
of
Guize
and
the
league
.
First
,
whereas
the
other
,
to
whom
ambition
giueth
the
same
hope
for
the
crowne
of
France
,
which
right
and
nature
hath
giuen
vnto
this
,
cannot
put
it
in
practise
but
by
warre
,
by
the
subuersion
of
lawes
,
and
alteration
of
the
state
of
the
realme
:
for
if
he
should
make
no
inuasion
,
or
if
euerie
thing
kept
their
ordinary
course
,
he
hath
no
right
to
it
,
no
he
could
not
be
called
to
it
.
This
on
the
other
side
cannot
looke
for
it
but
by
the
meanes
of
peace
,
by
keeping
euery
thing
in
order
,
his
desire
is
ordinarie
,
and
in
maintaining
the
lawes
,
his
title
is
lawfull
.
And
if
he
would
take
any
other
way
by
violence
or
vsurping
,
he
should
find
his
riuall
as
much
stronger
and
surely
setled
in
this
behalfe
,
ouer
that
he
is
,
as
hee
hath
an
aduantage
in
the
true
succession
.
In
the
meane
while
besides
the
right
of
the
realm
which
looketh
on
him
,
he
carrieth
moreouer
vppon
his
shoulders
the
burden
of
all
the
churches
of
France
,
he
beareth
all
their
hope
vpon
his
head
:
his
ouerthrow
to
mans
likelihood
is
their
ruine
and
oppression
:
his
greatnesse
their
libertie
.
And
that
is
it
which
encreaseth
the
power
of
his
enimies
,
and
which
lincketh
togither
against
him
al
the
catholikes
of
Europe
.
Of
truth
,
whiles
I
thinke
nowe
vpon
this
one
,
as
I
did
lately
vpon
the
other
,
me
thinketh
that
God
vnder
these
two
mightie
men
,
will
exercise
our
state
:
the
one
hauing
yet
more
strength
of
bodie
and
minde
to
preserue
it
,
than
the
other
hath
to
destroy
it
.
But
the
other
hauing
as
yet
more
meanes
,
by
the
reason
of
the
opportunity
which
he
had
,
to
ioine
with
the
greater
side
,
and
to
haue
had
the
means
to
vse
euen
the
kings
authority
:
this
will
cause
me
to
make
some
small
digression
to
compare
them
together
:
for
such
are
they
,
as
they
well
deserue
to
be
inserted
into
Plutarkes
paralels
,
I
force
my selfe
as
much
as
may
be
,
to
iudge
of
them
without
affection
,
although
I
should
in
respect
of
my
religion
,
my
side
,
and
infinite
other
occasions
fauour
the
one
more
than
the
other
:
yet
I
wot
not
whether
this
affection
doth
not
robbe
me
of
the
libertie
of
my
iudgement
.
But
me
thinketh
that
this
man
,
how
worthy
so
euer
the
other
is
,
hath
many
good
parts
in
him
whereby
he
goeth
beyond
him
.
I
speake
not
of
their
practises
,
I
call
them
not
in
question
.
I
do
not
so
much
as
giue
my
iudgement
of
those
of
the
duke
of
Guize
,
but
condemne
them
:
For
I
am
a
Frenchman
:
I
speake
onely
of
such
qualities
as
God
hath
indued
them
withall
,
proper
in
the
one
to
haue
them
such
,
and
in
the
other
to
oppose
himselfe
against
them
:
I
will
say
then
that
this
man
hath
all
his
life
through
,
yea
from
the
beginning
of
his
youth
fought
against
necessitie
it selfe
,
all
his
businesse
hath
beene
full
of
it
,
he
neuer
did
any
thing
but
with
paine
,
the
other
contrariwise
hath
had
all
to
his
mind
,
had
alwaies
all
opportunitie
for
the
first
.
Item
of
his
enterprises
,
wanted
alwaies
rather
workemanship
than
worke
,
rather
forme
then
matter
,
rather
will
then
meanes
.
Nothing
did
assist
this
,
neither
did
any
thing
resist
the
other
.
This
maketh
mee
to
conclude
first
,
that
seeing
by
these
sundrie
waies
they
haue
found
themselues
one
as
great
as
the
other
:
the
one
must
needs
haue
learned
more
,
haue
more
experience
more
courage
,
more
force
:
the
other
more
ambition
,
more
hope
,
a
thing
bred
in
him
by
the
greatnesse
of
his
meanes
,
&
by
consequent
of
more
enterprise
,
and
more
audacitie
.
That
the
one
hath
lesse
shew
,
lesse
vanitie
,
lesse
pompe
,
&
lesse
brauerie
in
his
affaires
:
the
other
lesse
experience
,
lesse
assurance
,
and
lesse
stabilitie
.
Which
maketh
me
to
thinke
that
whensoeuer
this
man
shall
find
himselfe
in
great
abundance
,
hee
shal
be
better
able
to
vse
it
,
then
the
other
could
defend
himselfe
against
necessitie
,
if
euer
he
were
brought
to
it
.
I
will
make
no
mention
of
the
former
wars
,
wherin
notwithstanding
the
duke
of
Guize
had
fortunes
giftes
alwaies
at
will
:
and
this
man
contrariwise
hath
often
tried
what
misery
may
,
yea
euen
the
extremest
:
(
I
speake
of
that
whereof
I
wil
now
say
:
)
that
if
I
had
seene
this
great
enterpriser
assailed
two
whole
yeares
,
by
eight
French
armies
,
which
were
sent
to
the
refreshing
one
of
an
other
,
&
led
on
a
row
by
the
best
Captains
of
France
,
amongst
the
which
I
account
his
brother
the
duke
of
Maine
:
and
that
at
his
departure
from
thence
,
not
onely
he
had
lost
nothing
,
but
besides
that
he
had
taken
seuen
or
eight
good
townes
,
&
wonne
a
great
battaile
,
hauing
in
his
hands
no
other
meanes
in
the
world
to
build
his
deedes
vpon
,
but
his
courage
alone
,
as
I
haue
seene
happen
to
the
king
of
Nauar
,
I
would
then
thinke
that
I
might
compare
them
togither
:
but
vntill
then
,
there
is
no
reason
so
to
do
.
Some
will
say
to
me
that
the
D.
of
Guize
hath
had
many
more
enterprises
and
greater
ones
,
&
all
that
the
king
of
Nauarre
could
do
,
it
was
to
resist
,
I
grant
it
.
It
was
an
easie
matter
for
the
one
to
enterprise
,
euerie
one
fauouring
him
:
difficult
to
the
other
to
resist
,
euery
one
being
against
him
.
As
the
labour
,
so
the
glorie
ought
to
be
greater
.
They
haue
notwithstanding
manie
humours
both
like
and
different
,
but
no
small
thinges
,
no
slender
ones
.
Both
are
of
great
courage
,
they
had
neede
of
it
:
both
are
gentle
,
courteous
,
friendly
:
both
are
actiue
of
bodie
,
vsed
to
toyle
,
and
acceptable
.
But
their
mindes
are
much
diuerse
.
The
one
is
most
honest
,
franke
,
openhearted
,
free
minded
,
sometimes
somewhat
hastie
,
well
resolued
notwithstanding
vpon
present
occasion
,
and
dangers
:
so
earnest
about
that
which
is
saide
before
him
,
and
so
bestirring
himselfe
about
the
vron
that
ought
to
bee
beaten
whiles
it
is
hote
,
that
he
hath
the
lesse
regard
to
that
which
is
passed
,
as
also
to
that
which
he
must
follow
:
he
will
conceiue
few
farre
fetched
practises
,
beeing
content
with
his
hope
,
and
referring
all
thereto
.
The
other
is
diuerse
and
as
bad
as
may
be
,
secret
,
close
,
craftie
,
patient
,
euen
so
farre
as
to
bee
blamed
for
it
,
as
I
haue
saide
,
dissembling
,
laying
downe
his
platformes
a
farre
off
.
For
hee
must
forge
his
owne
hope
,
looking
a
loofe
off
,
taking
nothing
in
hande
but
what
hee
is
sure
to
bring
to
passe
:
but
I
wotte
not
,
if
he
were
vpon
the
verie
point
of
daunger
,
whether
he
would
vsually
growe
to
so
readie
a
resolution
,
sith
hee
hath
not
had
so
often
triall
thereof
.
Howsoeuer
the
matter
goeth
they
are
both
woorthie
men
,
and
of
the
woorthiest
that
euer
France
did
beare
,
such
as
coulde
haue
performed
notable
actions
,
if
a
mightie
king
would
haue
vsed
them
,
and
his
time
haue
suffered
it
.
To
come
againe
to
the
matter
.
As
for
the
king
of
Nauar
,
he
neither
hath
,
neither
ought
to
haue
any
practise
about
the
state
,
his
possibilitie
doth
sufficiently
furnish
him
,
and
besides
,
he
hath
enough
to
do
to
breake
those
of
his
enimies
:
his
warre
tendeth
onely
to
peace
,
and
the
quietnes
of
the
realme
:
but
such
a
peace
as
to
the
which
he
will
neuer
agree
,
except
the
churches
of
France
,
&
so
consequently
the
strangers
if
he
can
,
may
be
at
liberty
.
He
nedeth
not
plead
his
right
to
the
crown
it
is
no
time
:
moreouer
,
that
which
is
sure
,
ought
not
to
bee
called
into
doubt
or
question
:
much
les
need
he
busie
himselfe
about
the
ouerthrow
of
those
of
Guize
&
Lorraine
.
He
wisheth
not
their
harm
,
except
as
they
wish
the
realmes
,
to
the
which
if
they
would
bee
profitable
,
hee
acknowledgeth
them
most
sufficient
,
as
concerning
their
particular
persons
.
Their
degree
is
not
equall
with
his
,
who
vseth
the
name
of
a
king
.
That
name
keepeth
him
from
thinking
vpon
theirs
.
His
only
drift
&
purpose
(
if
he
hath
any
)
tendeth
to
defend
himself
,
&
after
such
a
sort
,
that
he
may
constrain
his
enimies
to
render
vnto
France
hir
peace
,
to
the
king
his
authority
,
to
him
&
his
their
libertie
.
After
that
,
let
them
of
Guize
enrich
and
aduance
themselues
as
much
as
they
can
,
so
it
be
not
to
the
cost
of
one
of
these
three
,
it
skils
him
not
.
The
proceeding
and
the
way
that
he
taketh
about
it
,
is
not
certaine
,
it
dependeth
vpon
the
same
which
the
others
do
hold
against
him
.
If
they
let
him
alone
,
he
stirreth
not
:
if
they
come
to
weapons
,
hee
runnes
to
them
:
if
they
laie
them
downe
,
he
doth
the
like
:
that
is
the
reason
why
the
king
knoweth
in
his
heart
,
that
when
the
rest
of
France
shal
be
agreed
,
that
there
will
be
little
or
no
difficultie
at
all
with
this
man
,
who
being
ledde
onely
by
reason
,
may
be
at
all
times
easily
brought
to
it
againe
.
I
haue
spoken
of
the
three
principall
heads
which
vphold
the
three
factions
that
are
in
France
:
wee
are
nowe
to
marke
such
as
come
in
by
bi-waies
,
what
drift
and
scope
they
haue
,
whereat
they
aime
,
and
what
hope
they
haue
to
hit
on
it
.
Amongst
these
,
the
first
is
the
Queene
mother
vnto
the
king
,
who
for
her
credits
sake
,
and
in
shew
,
keepeth
her selfe
on
her
sonnes
side
,
as
she
did
alwaies
,
when
shee
had
many
sonnes
,
hold
with
him
that
was
king
:
but
who
notwithstanding
hateth
nothing
more
than
his
absolute
power
,
as
beeing
the
worse
for
it
.
When
France
was
in
peace
,
she
was
faine
to
spin
her
rock
at
home
,
her
son
left
her
no
charge
,
nor
deling
in
any
matter
.
That
she
might
recouer
her
authoritie
,
she
was
fain
to
shuffell
the
cardes
,
or
haue
intelligence
with
those
that
shuffeled
them
,
otherwise
she
was
of
no
vse
:
which
her
mind
,
that
could
not
thinke
on
small
matters
,
could
neuer
brooke
.
And
of
this
Princesse
whose
race
hath
ruled
,
&
ruleth
at
this
day
ouer
the
best
parts
of
Europe
,
it
may
be
saide
as
it
was
of
Agrippa
,
V●●ribus
curis
mu●ebria
vitia
exuisse
,
If
that
alreadie
were
not
a
vice
in
a
woman
:
it
hath
beene
alwaies
her
custome
,
in
France
to
stirre
vp
one
against
another
,
that
in
the
meane
while
she
might
rule
in
these
diuisions
.
The
mightie
against
the
mightie
,
Princes
against
Princes
,
yea
her
owne
children
against
her
children
.
For
she
know
wel
enough
that
our
state
standeth
so
,
as
that
a
woman
,
except
it
be
by
some
extraordinarie
waies
,
is
of
no
credite
therein
.
In
the
time
of
the
late
king
Charles
,
this
that
nowe
is
,
was
then
her
protector
,
whose
power
she
did
increase
as
much
as
she
could
,
to
the
end
she
might
vse
him
to
make
her selfe
necessarie
vnto
the
other
.
The
king
at
length
perceiued
it
,
but
too
late
.
Since
that
,
this
beeing
come
vnto
the
Crowne
,
wherein
to
speake
the
truth
,
hee
was
infinitely
bound
vnto
her
,
whiles
he
was
in
Polande
,
being
as
well
assured
that
except
shee
had
wisely
prouided
for
it
,
there
had
beene
such
stirringes
in
France
as
perchance
at
his
comming
home
hee
had
beene
kept
from
getting
in
.
Shee
kept
her
credite
for
three
or
foure
yeares
,
whilest
this
yoong
king
dreamed
of
nothing
but
the
pleasures
of
his
age
,
and
the
deliciousnesse
of
his
newe
estate
:
but
since
,
beginning
to
take
vppon
him
the
affirmatiue
voice
,
and
to
seeke
to
rule
alone
,
she
was
forced
to
haue
recourse
vnto
Mounsieur
her
yoonger
sonne
,
who
for
a
while
vphelde
her
,
and
made
her
to
be
esteemed
necessarie
.
He
being
deade
,
shee
chose
other
remedies
:
for
howsoeuer
it
bee
,
shee
hath
euer
wished
two
thinges
.
The
one
,
to
make
him
that
was
in
possibilitie
of
the
Crowne
to
bee
beholding
vnto
her
,
for
to
keepe
him
in
when
hee
were
come
to
it
:
The
other
,
to
make
him
in
the
meane
while
so
great
,
that
he
that
were
master
of
the
State
,
should
bee
forced
to
vse
her
helpe
in
brideling
the
other
,
employing
after
this
manner
verie
quietly
both
their
powers
one
against
the
other
,
that
betwixt
them
shee
might
rule
and
be
sought
to
:
such
a
councell
as
particularlie
for
her selfe
was
as
full
of
wisedome
as
often
full
of
troubles
and
inconueniences
for
the
commons
.
Nowe
,
if
after
Mounsieurs
death
,
shee
had
founde
the
king
of
Nauarre
fitte
for
these
practises
,
she
had
made
her
buckler
of
him
:
but
seeing
that
his
religion
,
and
many
other
considerations
did
hinder
her
,
she
hath
cast
both
her
eyes
and
her
heart
on
the
house
of
Lorraine
,
and
her
daughters
children
,
whereunto
the
hatred
that
shee
did
beare
vnto
this
Prince
,
euen
from
his
infancie
hath
beene
a
great
helpe
:
So
that
esteeming
her selfe
not
able
to
bee
reconciled
with
him
,
shee
consequently
dooth
feare
him
,
and
is
fully
resolued
to
hinder
him
in
all
that
shee
can
,
from
getting
anie
part
in
France
.
Shee
can
neuer
doo
it
without
the
ouerthrowe
of
the
order
of
the
Realme
.
For
(
as
I
saide
)
after
this
hatred
commeth
in
the
loue
shee
beareth
vnto
the
children
of
the
D.
of
Lorraine
,
who
are
her
daughters
children
,
towards
whome
she
hath
a
secret
inclination
,
neuer
ceasing
day
nor
night
to
reproch
vnto
the
king
,
that
he
ought
rather
to
loue
as
his
heires
,
his
Nephewes
,
his
Sisters
children
,
then
a
stranger
vnto
his
house
:
so
dooth
shee
terme
the
king
of
Nauarre
.
The
daughters
of
Spaine
are
also
her
daughters
children
,
vpon
whome
she
would
likewise
be
glad
to
bestowe
some
part
of
the
same
:
not
being
grieued
in
the
meane
while
that
her
sons
state
is
in
trouble
,
to
the
ende
that
he
should
haue
refuge
vnto
her
,
and
that
she
may
be
imployed
.
Now
in
this
manner
she
agreeth
well
with
the
Duke
of
Guize
,
to
crosse
her
sonne
,
to
stirre
vp
,
and
open
the
way
to
confusion
,
and
about
the
meanes
to
alter
the
order
of
succession
in
our
realme
:
but
to
wish
that
hee
shoulde
waxe
so
great
that
he
might
ouerthrow
the
king
himselfe
,
&
dispossesse
him
,
and
himselfe
afterward
to
inuade
the
whole
state
,
it
is
not
likely
,
I
cannot
beleeue
that
she
desireth
it
.
Now
vnder
this
the
Queene
mothers
intent
,
I
comprehend
also
that
of
the
Marquise
du
Port
,
her
little
sonne
,
sonne
vnto
the
Duke
of
Lorraine
,
who
likewise
hath
no
intelligence
or
hope
in
this
our
state
,
any
further
then
she
his
grandmother
doth
procure
him
to
conceiue
.
Next
,
there
is
the
king
of
Spaine
,
who
from
the
beginning
of
these
wars
,
seeing
the
Queene
of
England
to
knit
a
straite
alliance
with
our
king
,
seeing
in
the
same
time
also
the
Commissioners
of
the
low
countries
at
Paris
to
offer
him
the
soueraigntie
ouer
their
prouinces
,
it
came
in
his
head
to
cast
three
or
foure
thousand
crownes
into
the
hungrie
hands
of
the
league
,
so
to
set
France
in
troubles
,
as
being
assured
that
by
these
meanes
he
should
keepe
the
king
from
thinking
vpon
Flanders
,
the
which
he
did
most
feare
:
as
indeed
,
there
is
but
the
onely
king
of
France
,
so
he
be
in
peace
,
that
can
easily
take
these
Prouinces
from
the
Spaniarde
.
This
is
that
which
brought
him
in
,
and
consequently
,
that
somewhat
ouerhastned
the
Duke
of
Guizes
deuises
.
Besides
that
,
hee
feareth
now
extremely
,
least
the
king
of
Nauarre
should
attaine
to
the
crowne
of
France
:
hee
is
his
enimie
by
nature
:
he
detaineth
a
kingdome
from
him
,
which
no
doubt
if
the
others
●●awes
may
growe
on
,
will
bee
wholly
pulled
away
,
and
more
perchance
withall
.
Hee
knoweth
well
enough
,
that
he
being
olde
,
his
children
yoong
,
his
state
deuided
and
scarse
setled
,
small
matters
after
his
death
will
trouble
it
:
much
more
a
king
of
Nauarre
,
if
he
were
king
of
Fraunce
.
Therfore
he
is
glad
to
frame
himselfe
vnto
those
of
Lorraine
,
to
finde
them
meanes
to
stirre
vp
coales
,
that
in
the
meane
while
he
may
more
freely
goe
about
his
warres
of
the
lowe
countries
,
and
of
Englande
:
to
molest
the
king
of
France
,
thereby
to
ouerthrowe
the
king
of
Nauarre
:
to
the
end
that
afterward
the
realm
being
left
for
a
pray
,
he
being
the
mightiest
,
might
catch
the
greater
part
.
This
is
his
drift
as
concerning
our
state
:
but
that
he
would
proceede
so
farre
as
being
burdened
with
many
other
particular
expences
,
he
wold
yet
draw
his
treasors
drie
,
to
make
the
Duke
of
Guize
king
:
he
I
say
,
who
is
perswaded
that
if
it
were
so
that
the
maner
of
succession
must
needs
be
altered
,
his
daughters
the
kinges
Nieces
,
ought
to
haue
the
better
part
:
That
which
I
say
of
the
K.
of
Spaine
may
likewise
be
applied
to
the
duke
of
Sauoy
his
son
in
law
,
who
is
of
much
lesse
power
,
and
hath
no
other
deuises
then
his
father
in
lawes
.
These
are
all
that
either
doo
good
or
euill
vnto
France
.
These
are
her
good
or
bad
humours
:
These
are
the
prosperous
or
contrary
windes
which
torment
&
trouble
it
.
And
of
their
discordes
and
passions
as
diuerse
as
themselues
,
as
differing
and
contrarie
as
they
are
,
dependeth
her
good
or
euill
happe
.
Oh
mightie
Empire
!
the
glorie
of
Europe
:
to
the
which
the
course
of
1200.
yeares
could
bring
nothing
but
encrease
,
thy
enemies
nothing
but
glorie
,
there
was
some
reason
that
after
so
manie
victories
,
thou
shouldest
ende
by
thy
owne
handes
,
thou
shouldest
stoupe
vnder
thine
owne
force
,
seeing
destinie
had
not
created
in
the
world
any
conquerour
ouer
thee
.
But
leauing
of
this
maner
of
speech
,
which
rather
prouoketh
me
to
weepe
than
to
write
:
seeing
that
the
diuision
of
religion
doth
serue
for
a
pretence
in
the
alteration
of
our
Realme
,
and
so
consequently
in
his
destruction
,
if
God
suffer
it
so
,
this
euill
being
almost
common
to
all
the
states
of
Europe
.
I
will
slippe
a
little
a
side
to
speake
somewhat
of
the
generall
affaires
of
Christendome
,
in
that
which
concerneth
these
two
great
factions
,
the
one
resting
yet
vnder
the
obedience
of
the
Pope
,
the
other
hauing
cast
it
off
.
I
will
not
entreat
hereof
as
a
Diuine
.
I
knowe
verie
well
that
God
commonly
tryeth
his
by
affections
,
as
the
meanes
to
keepe
men
in
their
dueties
,
and
immediatly
to
haue
recourse
vnto
him
whom
they
thinke
but
little
vppon
whiles
their
necke
is
swollen
vp
with
prosperitie
.
Neither
am
I
ignorant
that
the
sonne
of
God
pronounceth
these
wordes
:
My
kingdome
is
not
of
this
worlde
:
thereby
teaching
to
the
true
Christians
,
that
it
is
not
here
that
they
ought
to
seeke
their
ease
,
and
although
they
finde
themselues
afflicted
,
yet
must
they
not
mistrust
of
their
cause
,
as
if
God
did
detest
them
,
and
were
purposed
to
roote
them
out
from
the
face
of
the
earth
,
albeit
contrariwise
,
they
see
the
Turkes
,
the
Heathen
,
the
poore
blinded
ones
in
Popish
superstitions
,
haue
all
at
will
:
and
conquer
Realmes
,
furnish
Prouinces
,
and
them
of
veines
of
golde
which
neuer
drie
vp
,
and
their
armies
prosper
euerie
where
.
That
their
good
happe
procureth
them
such
men
as
to
doo
them
seruice
will
attempt
vppon
those
Princes
liues
that
are
their
enimies
,
euen
in
the
middest
of
their
Gardes
.
Finally
,
they
scarse
haue
yet
wished
,
when
God
suffereth
them
to
see
their
desire
fulfilled
.
Where
cleane
contrariwise
hee
hath
laide
this
necessitie
vppon
his
true
seruantes
,
that
they
shall
take
his
crosse
vpon
their
shoulders
if
they
will
followe
him
,
passe
through
the
straight
gate
,
and
after
his
example
passe
away
their
whole
life
in
griefe
,
affliction
,
&
in
necessitie
.
According
to
these
rules
and
tokens
,
which
cannot
be
applyed
to
any
other
,
then
those
that
make
profession
of
the
true
reformed
religion
,
it
might
suffice
me
to
conclude
,
that
they
whom
God
afflicteth
after
this
sort
,
are
his
true
children
,
whom
hee
will
afflict
,
but
not
vtterlie
cast
away
:
whom
he
will
chastice
,
but
not
punish
:
whom
he
vseth
as
his
children
that
offended
him
,
in
doing
otherwise
than
he
commanded
them
,
and
not
as
seruantes
that
haue
robbed
him
.
And
after
such
a
maner
,
that
although
at
this
day
throughout
all
Christendome
the
greatest
potentates
of
the
worlde
bee
confederated
,
vnited
,
and
ioyned
togither
against
them
,
it
is
all
in
vaine
.
God
will
neuer
suffer
that
which
is
his
to
bee
cast
away
:
they
are
his
,
hee
well
may
dippe
them
two
or
three
fingers
in
the
water
:
but
presently
hee
will
stretch
foorth
his
arme
of
deliuerance
to
pull
them
out
of
the
gulph
:
and
that
could
I
(
besides
the
indubitable
trueth
of
that
promise
which
he
made
vnto
his
)
prooue
by
the
course
of
things
that
are
passed
in
the
church
since
the
foundation
of
the
world
.
But
as
I
haue
said
,
my
purpose
is
not
to
reason
like
a
diuine
.
It
sufficeth
me
to
prooue
that
we
haue
not
only
that
great
supernatural
piller
of
Gods
power
for
our
defence
,
as
an
impenetrable
shield
,
against
the
which
,
all
the
dartes
of
the
worlde
turne
their
points
backwards
:
but
also
euen
in
the
worlde
it selfe
,
and
among
all
humaine
meanes
he
hath
giuen
vs
without
comparison
more
then
our
enimies
:
so
that
if
we
suffer
that
they
afflict
vs
,
it
is
but
our
fault
,
because
we
cannot
helpe
our selues
with
that
power
that
he
hath
giuen
vs
.
All
Christendome
which
is
vnder
the
Popes
obedience
,
is
at
this
day
ioyned
togither
to
roote
out
those
of
the
religion
.
Who
are
those
wicked
ones
?
let
vs
iudge
of
their
power
,
and
see
whether
it
be
so
great
as
that
we
need
to
feare
it
.
It
is
the
Pope
,
it
is
the
Emperour
it
is
the
king
of
Spaine
,
there
be
certaine
Potentates
of
Italie
:
In
France
are
the
duke
of
Guize
and
his
kinsmen
,
who
make
the
king
and
the
realme
to
serue
their
turnes
as
they
list
.
In
Switzerland
there
are
certaine
Cantons
:
In
Germanie
,
diuers
princes
.
I
haue
named
all
,
and
them
by
the
most
glorious
names
that
I
could
deuise
:
there
are
Popes
,
Emperors
,
Kings
,
and
numbers
of
Princes
.
It
is
saide
that
all
these
terrors
of
the
worlde
are
gathered
togither
to
this
purpose
onely
,
to
make
an
end
of
those
which
professe
the
true
religion
,
God
grant
it
,
so
be
it
.
The
more
enimies
,
the
greater
glorie
.
But
let
vs
search
them
a
little
nearer
,
wee
shall
finde
that
all
these
men
haue
some
particular
intent
which
they
keepe
to
themselues
,
and
that
to
●●intaine
their
vnitie
they
all
agree
onely
in
the
generall
.
What
intentes
?
let
vs
specially
consider
of
them
.
The
Popes
is
manifest
:
Luther
,
Zuinglius
,
and
Caluin
,
haue
abridged
him
of
two
partes
of
his
reuenues
:
the
thirde
is
in
great
danger
,
they
labour
about
it
.
He
would
both
recouer
that
which
he
hath
lost
,
if
it
were
possible
,
and
assure
against
hereafter
,
that
which
he
holdeth
.
The
whole
realme
of
England
is
slipped
out
of
his
handes
:
if
the
king
of
Spaine
could
plant
there
againe
the
catholike
religion
,
it
were
so
much
recouered
for
him
.
France
hath
neuer
shewed
him
anie
great
obedience
,
the
church
of
France
had
alwaies
her
priuiledges
by
her selfe
:
yet
it
is
nothing
,
thinketh
hee
,
in
respect
of
that
it
shoulde
bee
,
if
euer
the
king
of
Nauarre
should
come
to
bee
king
of
it
.
He
feareth
least
he
should
come
ouer
the
Alpes
:
he
is
of
the
race
of
Bourbon
,
fatall
vnto
Rome
:
besides
that
hee
is
alreadie
egged
on
against
the
Popes
,
for
his
kingdome
of
Nauarre
,
which
most
vniustly
they
haue
passed
ouer
vnto
the
Kinges
of
Castile
.
Moreouer
,
he
feareth
least
that
a
mightie
Prince
like
vnto
this
,
doo
one
day
bring
a
great
reformation
in
religion
,
which
can
not
bee
doone
without
diminishing
the
authoritie
of
the
sea
:
which
notwithstanding
will
bee
as
easie
for
him
to
doo
,
as
it
was
for
Philippe
the
faire
,
and
manie
other
kinges
of
Fraunce
,
enemies
to
the
Popes
vsurpations
.
Thus
his
chiefest
interest
is
to
cut
this
Prince
short
of
his
hope
.
For
his
part
hee
dooth
what
hee
can
,
hee
thundreth
,
hee
stormeth
,
he
curseth
,
hee
declareth
him
an
heretike
,
a
rebell
:
finally
,
not
capable
of
the
Crowne
of
France
,
as
though
it
lay
in
him
to
take
it
away
,
or
to
giue
it
.
For
the
execution
of
this
Bull
,
which
in
deede
of
it selfe
could
doo
but
little
against
the
bulwarkes
of
Rochell
,
(
if
that
were
all
)
he
armeth
all
Christendome
,
yea
euen
the
Cardinall
of
Bourbon
,
to
whome
hee
sendeth
a
hallowed
sworde
,
of
the
race
of
Saint
Paule
:
hee
promiseth
money
vnto
the
Guizians
:
hee
promiseth
,
but
hee
sendeth
not
,
as
hauing
not
yet
paide
that
which
his
Popedome
did
cost
him
,
according
to
the
Romish
stile
.
To
conclude
,
as
it
belongeth
to
him
,
hee
worketh
myracles
with
his
Crosier
staffe
,
and
his
purpose
and
drift
is
,
to
animate
all
the
worlde
against
the
heretikes
,
among
whom
hee
comprehendeth
the
Queene
of
Englande
,
and
the
king
of
Nauarre
his
principall
enemie
to
his
thinking
,
whose
ouerthrowe
hee
looketh
for
,
by
the
meanes
of
this
vniuersall
league
.
As
much
or
more
occasion
hath
hee
to
complaine
of
the
high
and
lowe
Germanie
,
as
of
Fraunce
,
and
Englande
:
but
hee
thinketh
that
after
that
the
king
of
Spaine
and
those
of
Guize
shall
haue
chasticed
,
that
is
to
saie
,
vsurped
France
,
and
Englande
,
in
driuing
out
the
heretikes
,
that
is
to
say
,
the
true
princes
and
lawfull
lordes
:
after
that
they
shall
haue
tamed
the
lowe
countries
,
they
may
without
any
gainesaying
ioyne
their
forces
with
the
Emperors
,
so
to
constraine
either
by
friendship
or
force
the
Princes
of
Germanie
which
are
Protestants
,
to
come
againe
vnder
the
yoke
of
his
obedience
:
that
after
that
,
being
no
great
likelihood
that
the
Suitzers
woulde
obstinate
themselues
against
such
great
forces
,
seeing
their
Cantons
are
alreadie
deuided
,
they
altogither
might
easily
assist
the
Duke
of
Sauoy
,
to
recouer
Geneua
,
and
to
sacke
that
towne
which
they
call
the
spring
and
fountaine
of
all
heretikes
of
Christendome
.
It
is
there
that
hee
concludeth
the
ende
of
his
desire
,
and
of
his
holie
leagues
enterprise
.
Which
I
haue
seene
written
by
Pope
Sixtus
himselfe
,
in
a
letter
intercepted
about
the
beginning
of
these
troubles
in
France
,
sent
from
Italie
into
Spaine
.
And
as
for
him
,
this
is
his
pretence
,
that
is
his
intent
grounded
vpon
that
generall
hatred
which
hee
beareth
to
the
heretikes
,
but
especially
vnto
the
king
of
Nauarre
,
and
the
Queene
of
England
,
of
whom
he
hath
receiued
harme
enough
alreadie
,
or
is
afraid
to
receiue
more
.
The
king
of
Spaine
hath
three
particular
purposes
,
for
the
which
he
wisheth
this
generall
league
.
The
first
to
compasse
the
warres
of
the
lowe
countries
which
are
helde
by
those
whome
hee
calleth
heretikes
,
and
against
the
Queene
of
Englande
,
who
is
likewise
of
their
number
.
The
seconde
his
hereditarie
desire
to
ioyne
France
vnto
his
dominions
:
which
hee
thinketh
he
may
nowe
the
more
easily
doo
,
in
respect
of
the
right
that
belongeth
vnto
him
through
his
wife
,
a
daughter
of
France
,
and
his
daughters
gotten
betwixt
them
:
for
as
for
him
,
hee
thinketh
not
that
the
Salike
lawe
,
the
honour
of
our
kings
,
was
made
for
him
.
The
last
,
the
ouerthrowe
of
the
king
of
Nauarre
,
whome
hee
purposeth
,
whatsoeuer
it
costeth
him
,
to
remooue
as
much
as
hee
can
possiblie
from
the
crowne
,
for
manie
reasons
that
hee
hath
to
feare
this
great
enimie
,
whome
God
keepeth
for
to
be
one
day
the
destruction
of
his
house
.
For
the
benefite
of
these
three
purposes
,
hee
is
come
in
,
and
hath
much
solicited
this
generall
league
,
which
strengtheneth
to
him
his
title
of
war
against
England
:
of
enmity
against
the
king
of
Nauar
:
ministreth
to
him
opportunity
to
enterprise
vnder
hand
against
the
state
of
France
whilest
he
fauoureth
the
affaires
of
the
Duke
of
Guize
his
partner
,
with
whom
,
except
it
were
for
this
,
he
could
haue
no
intelligence
that
might
yeeld
him
any
profite
:
by
his
meanes
in
France
he
doth
hope
to
ouerthrow
the
king
of
Nauarre
,
also
he
hopeth
to
vse
the
hauens
of
Picardie
,
and
Normandie
against
England
,
&
the
low
countries
:
being
sure
enough
afterward
,
that
the
king
of
France
being
dead
,
his
lawfull
successor
dispossessed
,
and
the
realme
left
as
a
pray
,
he
shal
be
able
easily
to
deuide
their
part
vnto
those
of
Lorraine
,
being
stronger
then
they
:
and
thus
may
we
see
that
he
turneth
the
general
pretence
of
this
goodly
league
to
his
particular
benefit
and
purpose
,
euen
as
though
it
had
beene
onely
made
for
his
domesticall
affaires
.
The
Emperour
would
galdly
,
that
all
the
other
Princes
of
Christendome
which
are
of
the
religion
,
were
ouerthrowne
,
to
the
end
the
whole
bodie
of
the
league
might
come
to
set
him
free
from
the
protestants
which
are
his
neighbours
:
but
because
it
is
yet
a
long
peece
of
worke
,
and
that
it
were
not
good
for
him
to
bestirre
himselfe
much
,
least
he
should
waken
those
mightie
princes
which
are
stronger
then
himselfe
:
he
rusheth
not
far
in
amongst
them
,
no
more
then
the
other
princes
of
Germanie
.
I
haue
discoursed
enough
of
the
duke
of
Guizes
intent
and
purpose
,
which
is
to
make
himselfe
alone
king
of
France
,
if
it
be
possible
,
or
at
least
〈◊〉
the
better
part
:
such
a
purpose
as
willingly
admitteth
no
fellow
,
&
for
the
which
a
man
wil
not
lightly
labour
for
another
.
This
I
doo
heere
note
onely
to
shewe
that
to
helpe
himselfe
in
Fraunce
by
the
meanes
of
Spaine
,
to
the
furtherance
of
his
enterprise
,
&
in
recompence
thereof
himselfe
to
helpe
the
Spaniard
to
recouer
his
lowe
countries
:
to
see
the
Queene
of
England
,
to
whom
he
wisheth
euen
death
it selfe
,
whom
likewise
he
knoweth
to
be
the
only
support
of
his
enimie
,
quite
ouerthrowne
,
he
wil
haue
notable
intelligence
with
the
king
of
Spaine
:
but
to
yeelde
him
wholy
the
crowne
of
France
,
and
to
holde
it
of
him
by
homage
,
if
he
be
able
to
vsurpe
it
,
or
to
giue
him
ouer
the
better
part
,
I
beleeue
he
will
not
.
In
the
meane
while
these
pretences
being
grounded
vpon
nothing
else
then
the
diuision
of
religion
,
wee
must
confesse
him
to
bee
one
of
the
chiefest
pillers
of
this
holy
league
.
The
princes
of
Italie
haue
no
other
purpose
at
al
then
their
owne
preseruation
,
being
enclosed
on
one
side
by
the
Pope
,
on
the
other
by
the
Venetians
,
on
the
thirde
by
the
king
of
Spaine
:
besides
deuided
,
and
their
States
so
small
,
that
they
haue
smal
leasure
to
think
of
any
other
matter
than
to
maintaine
themselues
:
and
for
this
reason
only
are
they
come
into
the
league
.
But
they
are
not
so
good
catholikes
,
but
that
they
feare
more
the
encrease
of
the
house
of
Spaine
,
then
the
decay
of
their
religion
.
Such
as
haue
beene
in
their
countries
do
know
this
The
Duke
of
Sauoy
is
also
comprehended
in
this
generall
vnion
:
so
long
as
his
father
in
law
shall
liue
,
he
will
haue
the
same
enterprises
that
he
hath
:
if
he
dieth
,
he
wil
haue
others
,
as
I
shall
shewe
anone
,
which
altogither
doo
synpathise
with
those
of
the
league
.
The
duke
of
Lorraine
likewise
,
when
euery
bodie
shall
come
to
reape
the
fruit
of
his
labour
,
and
the
interest
of
his
charges
,
his
conclusion
wil
not
agree
with
the
D.
of
Guizes
proposition
.
The
Cantons
of
Zuitzerland
are
not
in
my
opinion
entred
into
the
league
,
because
of
the
alliance
which
they
haue
with
our
king
,
and
the
bonde
that
knitteth
them
togither
in
their
countrie
.
Notwithstanding
I
doubt
not
,
but
that
for
mony
they
will
finde
forces
,
not
generallie
vnto
the
league
,
but
particularly
to
the
Duke
of
Guize
,
yet
haue
they
after
made
some
difficultie
thereof
.
Of
purpose
haue
I
shewed
the
intent
of
each
partaker
of
the
league
,
to
prooue
that
which
I
haue
said
,
that
euerie
one
of
them
had
some
particular
meaning
disagreeing
one
from
another
:
to
the
end
that
thereby
I
might
shewe
,
that
whatsoeuer
good
intelligence
they
had
one
with
another
,
it
were
verie
easie
for
vs
to
haue
a
better
.
All
with
one
course
will
I
seeke
out
,
what
are
their
meanes
and
their
forces
:
in
the
which
I
hope
to
finde
so
many
wantes
in
respect
of
that
which
is
in
our
handes
,
that
we
would
bee
ashamed
to
suffer
our selues
to
bee
beaten
.
I
will
beginne
with
the
weakest
.
Of
which
number
I
take
the
Emperour
and
the
Catholike
princes
of
Germanie
to
bee
.
For
although
vndoubtedly
they
bee
of
great
power
,
yet
the
Protestantes
their
neighbours
are
of
such
force
,
as
euerie
man
dooth
knowe
:
to
witte
,
the
king
of
Denmarke
,
the
Electours
Palatin
,
of
Saxonie
,
and
Brandenbourgh
,
the
Landgraue
of
Hessia
,
and
manie
other
great
princes
and
lordes
;
so
that
if
they
woulde
,
the
other
durst
not
seeme
to
haue
enterprised
any
thing
at
all
.
I
haue
shewed
what
the
forces
of
the
Cantons
of
Zuitzerland
are
,
and
howe
the
generall
league
may
haue
vse
of
them
.
As
for
the
princes
of
Italie
,
the
Duke
of
Sauoy
,
as
our
nearest
neighbour
,
is
the
most
to
be
feared
of
them
all
.
But
first
,
it
is
but
a
small
matter
of
forces
that
may
come
from
him
:
next
,
hee
rather
resteth
vppon
sure
possibilities
,
then
vppon
vncerteine
ones
.
His
father
in
lawe
is
olde
,
at
his
death
hee
hopeth
to
get
somewhat
,
and
I
doo
thinke
that
hee
will
rather
cast
his
cies
vpon
the
states
of
Millaine
and
Naples
,
if
the
succession
of
Spaine
come
to
bee
deuided
,
as
there
is
great
likelihood
:
for
the
daughters
who
are
as
ambitious
as
may
bee
,
and
alreadie
by
their
father
himselfe
trained
vp
in
the
handling
of
affaires
,
and
almost
put
in
full
possession
of
his
kingdomes
,
will
hardly
bee
content
to
bee
married
for
a
peece
of
money
,
and
leaue
such
great
riches
vnto
their
yoong
brother
,
sicklie
,
and
as
they
say
,
an
Idiot
:
so
that
,
mee
thinketh
this
Duke
hath
worke
enough
cut
out
already
,
needing
not
to
busie
himselfe
much
about
any
enterprises
on
this
side
of
the
Mounts
,
which
enclose
him
in
.
On
the
other
side
beyond
them
,
he
can
doo
so
little
though
hee
woulde
,
and
hee
findeth
himselfe
in
a
countrey
so
full
of
disaduantage
,
that
beeing
of
one
side
kept
by
the
Germaines
,
on
an
other
by
the
Zuitzers
,
on
the
other
by
the
Frenchmen
,
and
on
all
sides
by
the
Alpes
,
such
forces
as
hee
coulde
raise
out
of
his
countrie
,
which
can
bee
but
verie
small
,
cannot
bee
transported
to
anie
place
,
where
they
may
performe
anie
thing
without
great
losse
and
difficultie
.
As
for
his
money
,
to
make
good
cheere
at
home
hee
hath
enough
:
but
to
make
a
great
warre
,
not
so
.
The
other
Princes
of
Italie
,
as
the
Dukes
of
Ferrara
,
of
Mantoue
,
of
Florence
,
and
of
Vrbin
,
which
are
almost
the
chiefest
,
bee
all
added
to
,
for
to
encrease
their
rolle
,
and
to
say
:
Loe
what
a
number
here
is
,
and
not
for
any
other
matter
:
If
there
were
anie
warre
in
Italie
betwixt
two
mightie
Princes
,
such
as
were
Charles
of
Spaine
,
and
Francis
of
France
,
they
might
indeede
much
further
his
affaires
,
whome
they
would
assist
.
If
there
must
be
an
armie
made
vp
by
sea
against
the
Turke
,
each
one
of
them
shall
well
be
able
to
set
foorth
a
Galley
or
●waine
,
and
that
is
all
:
but
that
they
may
doo
much
in
a
great
warre
,
either
against
vs
in
France
,
or
in
England
,
or
in
Germanie
,
or
in
Flanders
,
not
so
.
Besides
that
,
as
I
haue
noted
,
they
will
neuer
be
so
deepe
in
the
league
,
but
that
they
will
feare
more
the
encrease
of
Spaine
,
then
the
decreasing
of
Rome
.
The
Duke
of
Parma
,
as
he
is
Duke
of
Parma
,
may
be
of
the
number
of
them
,
but
in
respect
that
hee
commandeth
ouer
the
forces
of
the
king
of
Spaine
in
the
lowe
countries
,
surely
hee
is
a
great
captaine
,
without
doubt
he
hath
gotten
great
reputation
and
credite
,
bee
it
amongest
the
Armies
which
hee
commandeth
ouer
,
bee
it
amongst
the
countries
where
he
maketh
warre
,
yea
,
a
credite
by
inheritance
,
the
remembrance
of
his
mothers
gouernment
,
being
most
agreeable
amongst
them
.
But
withall
,
hee
were
but
vnwise
,
as
well
as
the
Duke
of
Sauoy
,
if
he
had
not
certaine
purposes
to
himselfe
,
or
if
hee
would
sticke
more
to
vaine
possibilities
then
to
certainties
.
For
my
part
I
beleeue
,
that
hee
is
not
resolued
to
haue
laboured
all
this
while
in
Flanders
for
an
other
.
But
there
is
a
farther
point
in
this
matter
,
which
is
,
that
as
long
as
he
shall
make
war
there
,
as
Lieutenant
to
the
king
of
Spaine
,
he
may
do
much
harme
:
but
if
once
hee
take
the
way
to
make
himselfe
lorde
of
it
,
as
he
may
easily
in
that
which
he
holdeth
,
after
the
good
mans
death
,
seeing
hee
can
onely
perfourme
it
by
gentle
meanes
,
and
the
good
will
of
the
people
,
hee
is
not
to
be
feared
any
more
,
but
must
needes
withdraw
himselfe
out
of
the
league
.
As
for
the
Duke
of
Lorraine
,
hee
is
a
great
lorde
,
but
a
pettie
Prince
:
take
away
from
before
his
eies
the
hope
of
possibilities
,
which
they
made
him
conceiue
in
France
,
for
his
sonne
,
which
only
hath
brought
him
in
,
with
the
league
,
hee
will
eftsoones
take
that
side
which
may
breede
his
owne
quietnesse
,
and
not
seeke
any
quarrell
.
Hee
is
verie
wise
:
and
therefore
I
beleeue
that
our
stirrings
in
France
proceede
not
from
him
at
this
time
.
Notwithstanding
there
is
no
doubt
but
that
hee
employeth
himselfe
in
this
generall
matter
against
vs
:
but
I
thinke
that
in
this
point
there
resteth
this
benefite
,
viz.
as
long
as
he
shall
hinder
the
growing
vp
of
the
Duke
of
Guize
his
cosin
,
as
he
must
needes
do
,
for
his
sonnes
sake
,
he
doth
vs
more
good
,
then
otherwise
he
could
do
vs
harme
:
now
he
hindreth
him
in
respect
of
the
crowne
,
the
which
at
length
agreeing
and
hauing
some
intelligence
with
the
Queene
mother
vnto
the
king
,
his
mother
in
lawe
,
hee
will
rather
demand
for
his
sonne
then
for
the
other
.
And
I
holde
it
for
a
most
true
principle
,
that
the
duke
of
Guize
our
capitall
aduersarie
,
is
alreadie
so
farre
in
,
that
he
must
needs
either
be
king
,
or
be
vndone
altogither
:
there
is
no
meane
for
him
betweene
these
two
extremities
.
Marius
,
Cinna
,
Pompey
,
Lepidus
,
and
Anthonie
may
be
examples
hereof
.
As
soone
as
a
man
hath
aspired
vnto
tyranny
,
Aut
Caesar
aut
nihil
.
I
haue
spoken
heretofore
of
his
meanes
:
they
are
indeede
great
enough
in
France
,
because
the
side
of
the
catholikes
is
great
,
amongst
whom
he
is
of
great
credit
,
and
his
assurance
being
his
chiefest
strength
,
that
the
king
wil
put
vp
al
his
presumpteousnesse
.
But
as
for
him
,
I
doubt
not
,
but
that
as
his
particular
purpose
tendeth
to
our
state
,
so
,
if
he
had
in
his
chests
the
ducats
of
the
Indies
,
he
would
make
a
breach
in
them
,
&
afterward
doo
much
harme
vnto
others
.
But
he
is
extreme
poore
,
and
indetted
,
the
seconde
token
of
a
man
that
commonly
aspireth
vnto
nouelties
.
Besides
that
,
he
hath
too
manie
that
stand
against
his
purposes
,
not
only
of
his
enimies
,
as
the
king
of
Nauarre
,
and
the
princes
of
the
bloud
:
but
of
his
owne
friends
,
as
the
heires
of
Spaine
,
of
Lorraine
,
and
of
Sauoy
,
and
those
of
his
owne
house
,
which
doo
pretende
as
much
right
to
the
vsurping
of
our
crowne
as
he
doth
:
and
to
the
which
,
seeing
hee
must
needes
vse
them
for
his
turne
as
he
dooth
,
hee
must
needes
likewise
giue
some
part
of
his
pray
,
if
hee
can
praie
vpon
any
thing
:
which
will
breede
him
infinite
gelousies
,
so
that
all
the
power
me
thinketh
,
of
this
partner
can
stretch
no
farther
than
to
the
dissipation
and
dismembring
of
our
realme
:
yet
shall
hee
bee
faine
to
haue
helpe
thereto
.
For
,
that
he
should
make
warre
either
against
the
Germaines
,
or
Englishmen
,
he
will
hardly
do
it
,
or
at
least
it
will
neuer
be
,
before
hee
hath
made
an
end
of
his
matters
in
France
,
which
is
a
long
peece
of
worke
.
And
vpon
that
I
will
obserue
one
most
true
qualitie
of
our
nation
:
that
is
,
that
such
is
our
nature
,
that
we
can
be
content
vnder
a
king
that
is
already
established
to
deuide
our selues
,
we
will
make
ciuill
warres
,
and
vproares
:
but
if
there
were
none
,
or
that
we
were
to
prouide
for
the
Crowne
,
wee
would
neuer
suffer
the
renting
a
sunder
of
it
.
For
if
a
prince
should
nor
find
himselfe
to
set
foot
in
the
whole
,
he
would
hardly
be
suffered
to
diuide
it
,
except
he
were
a
mightie
Prince
neere
vnto
it
,
as
the
king
of
Spaine
,
who
by
his
strength
,
and
by
the
meanes
of
his
Countries
,
might
hold
the
part
that
hee
had
ketched
vp
:
yet
were
it
hard
for
him
.
Finally
,
I
will
vse
but
two
testimonies
to
shewe
that
this
mans
power
,
is
no
such
great
matter
.
The
one
,
that
in
the
beginning
of
the
league
,
when
his
fire
was
most
kindled
,
when
men
thought
that
at
a
word
of
his
mouth
,
all
France
would
set
vp
their
crestes
,
hee
neuer
found
himselfe
accompanied
with
a
thousand
French
horsemen
,
and
foure
thousand
footmen
at
the
most
:
yea
all
those
vanished
away
in
one
moneth
,
notwithstanding
,
that
he
had
prodigally
spent
all
the
money
which
hee
receiued
out
of
Spaine
,
and
his
owne
in
gathering
them
together
.
The
other
,
that
being
since
entred
into
the
warre
,
a
small
armie
of
reisters
,
consisting
of
foure
thousande
fiue
hundred
horsemen
,
and
of
three
or
foure
thousande
Lansquenets
,
with
a
fewe
Switzers
,
did
passe
in
spight
of
him
through
his
gouernment
euen
to
the
verie
heart
of
France
:
did
beate
him
,
and
beate
him
againe
in
their
passage
,
as
often
as
they
saw
him
:
albeit
that
he
had
called
about
him
all
his
friends
,
partakers
,
and
power
,
and
that
he
had
besides
all
this
,
the
best
part
of
the
kinges
:
albeit
likewise
that
a
yeare
before
,
he
had
boasted
,
that
he
would
fight
with
the
Germaines
euen
vpon
the
Rhynes
side
,
and
that
it
stood
him
greatly
vpon
for
his
credite
so
to
doo
.
But
yet
without
doubt
,
if
men
should
suffer
this
head
of
a
saction
,
to
growe
on
,
and
except
God
had
bridled
him
,
he
is
the
greatest
,
the
ablest
,
and
the
most
daungerous
enimie
,
that
such
states
as
make
profession
of
the
religion
can
haue
.
There
are
yet
behinde
two
of
the
worst
:
to
wit
,
the
Pope
,
and
the
king
of
Spaine
.
The
first
is
the
brawlingest
,
the
most
seditious
of
all
,
and
yet
neuertheles
the
weakest
.
It
is
a
common
thing
,
Acutum
reddere
qui
possit
ferrum
〈◊〉
ipse
secandi
.
To
speake
the
truth
,
he
serueth
for
nothing
else
but
to
edge
their
kniues
.
The
Popes
they
cannot
tell
an
houre
before
they
are
,
whether
they
shal
be
Pope
or
not
.
Before
they
come
to
that
,
they
are
most
commonly
pettie
Italian
Cardinalles
(
for
gelousie
keepeth
the
greatest
from
it
)
who
during
the
Cardinalship
,
had
no
farther
practises
then
to
catch
some
annate
or
benefice
.
Those
that
are
able
to
stirre
vp
coales
,
are
not
lightly
preferred
:
Italy
hath
fared
the
worse
for
it
.
Last
of
all
,
none
can
come
by
it
without
paying
well
for
it
:
and
they
are
all
such
good
husbandes
as
that
they
leaue
as
little
as
they
can
to
their
successour
:
insomuch
that
the
newe
Pope
hath
enough
to
doo
for
the
three
or
foure
first
yeares
to
pay
those
which
haue
solde
him
his
See
,
and
afterwarde
to
liue
.
And
it
is
an
extraordinarie
thing
when
they
passe
nine
or
tenne
yeares
:
else
straightwaies
they
say
:
Exiit
sermo
interfratres
,
quod
discipulus
iste
non
moritur
.
For
they
are
verie
olde
when
they
are
chosen
:
so
that
ere
they
can
do
any
harme
,
they
are
carried
to
their
graues
.
And
as
for
this
man
if
there
were
no
more
but
he
,
we
should
not
neede
to
feare
anie
thing
else
then
Bulles
and
leade
,
which
hurt
none
but
those
that
are
afraide
of
them
.
The
king
of
Spaines
gold
were
much
more
to
bee
feared
:
whome
I
haue
kept
for
the
last
,
as
the
greatest
of
all
,
and
the
first
moouer
,
who
maketh
all
the
others
to
mooue
.
But
hee
for
his
part
hath
likewise
manie
discommodities
which
bind
his
handes
:
and
of
this
one
,
because
all
Europe
ringeth
of
his
name
,
wee
must
say
somewhat
the
more
.
This
Prince
is
sonne
to
Charles
the
fift
,
that
great
troubler
of
the
worlde
,
who
hath
tossed
all
so
much
topsie turuie
,
so
long
as
hee
was
in
it
:
who
was
happier
by
the
meanes
of
his
Lieutenantes
then
by
himselfe
:
who
had
eyther
for
his
friendes
or
for
his
foes
at
sundrie
times
all
the
Princes
of
his
time
:
a
mightie
Prince
notwithstanding
,
vigilant
,
a
warriour
,
(
if
euer
there
were
any
)
and
painefull
in
the
warres
:
besides
full
of
courtesie
and
humanitie
,
and
such
a
one
as
truely
was
woorthie
of
the
name
of
Caesar
,
and
woorthie
of
the
Empire
.
This
same
was
brought
vp
in
affaires
by
his
fathers
,
euen
from
his
cradle
:
yet
was
he
much
more
happie
than
he
:
and
his
good
happe
consisteth
in
this
,
that
as
long
as
his
yeares
could
encourage
him
to
great
matters
,
hee
neuer
mette
with
any
that
crossed
him
.
His
father
had
at
one
time
the
great
Francis
of
France
,
the
great
Henrie
of
England
,
Solyman
in
the
East
part
,
and
the
Princes
of
Germanie
,
which
thoroughly
exercised
his
witts
:
So
that
,
on
what
side
so
euer
he
turned
himselfe
,
hee
founde
businesse
enough
.
Besides
that
,
he
found
all
the
Countries
rounde
about
him
,
as
strong
,
and
as
like
to
set
vppon
him
,
as
he
vpon
them
.
That
was
it
,
that
made
his
fortune
so
diuerse
.
Contrariwise
,
Philip
at
this
day
king
of
Spaine
hath
beene
fauoured
with
such
fortune
as
had
neuer
interruption
.
But
that
is
more
to
bee
attributed
,
to
that
which
tell
out
about
him
,
then
to
himselfe
.
France
in
his
time
hath
beene
ruled
by
a
woman
,
and
by
children
,
or
so
toyled
by
ciuill
warres
,
that
they
haue
alwaies
founde
woorke
enough
within
themselues
.
England
likewise
ruled
by
a
woman
,
who
following
the
nature
of
her
kinde
,
hath
wisely
contented
her selfe
with
mainteining
her
subiectes
in
peace
,
and
defending
her
state
from
her
neighbours
attempts
,
not
enterprising
any
thing
against
them
.
Germanie
by
peaceable
Princes
.
The
East
partes
by
Selim
a
great
drunkard
,
who
tooke
pleasure
in
nothing
but
his
drinke
,
and
since
by
Amorat
his
sonne
,
halfe
an
Idiot
,
who
stirreth
not
from
the
Mosquetta
.
So
that
wee
must
not
say
,
that
he
had
good
lucke
euerie
where
,
but
that
hee
founde
no
where
any
bodie
that
might
breede
him
any
euill
lucke
:
all
which
notwithstanding
,
hee
hath
performed
no
great
matters
.
The
conquest
of
Portugall
and
of
Jndia
,
hath
beene
more
easie
then
luckie
:
there
was
no
great
labour
.
The
conquest
of
Tercyera
,
and
the
victorie
ouer
the
Frenchmen
shall
not
seeme
so
strange
,
if
wee
consider
that
it
was
a
whole
armie
of
Spaine
,
against
a
companie
of
ships
gathered
togither
in
France
.
As
for
the
battailes
of
Graueline
,
and
of
Saint
Quintin
,
they
were
yet
remnantes
of
his
fathers
victories
,
they
were
the
armies
that
from
their
youth
had
followed
the
olde
mans
fortune
,
there
was
but
little
of
his
,
his
person
it selfe
was
not
there
.
Nothing
did
stirre
in
Italie
,
in
Burgundie
,
in
the
kingdome
of
Naples
,
in
Sicilia
nothing
:
where
contrariwise
in
Affrica
hee
hath
lost
Gouleta
,
the
onely
labour
of
Charles
his
father
,
and
all
that
he
had
there
.
His
victories
haue
not
stretched
so
farre
in
Flanders
,
but
that
there
is
more
behinde
to
doo
.
The
reason
why
?
because
hee
hath
founde
there
some
resistance
.
It
is
an
easie
matter
for
a
man
to
winne
,
when
no
bodie
plaieth
against
him
.
Nowe
,
euen
now
,
hauing
gotten
enimies
woorthie
of
his
forces
,
wee
shall
see
what
he
can
doo
in
England
with
all
his
great
preparations
:
wee
shall
see
whether
he
shall
keepe
still
that
renowmed
great
fortune
.
Concerning
the
state
that
hee
findeth
himselfe
in
at
this
time
,
it
is
such
.
First
he
is
extreme
old
,
and
yet
more
broken
.
Hee
hath
but
two
daughters
,
and
a
yoong
boy
:
they
great
ones
,
ambitious
alreadie
,
and
proud
to
the
vttermost
:
the
one
Dutchesse
of
Sauoy
,
the
other
brought
vp
in
her
fathers
armes
,
and
in
the
affaires
of
his
estate
,
the
which
she
alone
gouerneth
:
his
sonne
is
little
and
sickly
,
as
I
haue
saide
:
now
are
these
occasions
of
diuisions
.
For
in
Spaine
the
daughters
may
succeede
.
Besides
that
,
his
state
is
much
diuided
.
The
lowe
Countries
,
which
were
his
best
mesle
,
are
farre
scattered
from
him
.
All
that
which
is
cut
off
from
him
,
as
the
Prouinces
which
are
vnited
with
the
Queene
of
England
,
he
can
see
no
hope
euer
to
recouer
.
That
which
the
Prince
of
Parma
holdeth
vnder
his
authoritie
,
he
scarse
assureth
himselfe
,
that
after
his
death
he
will
faithfully
surrender
it
vnto
his
children
.
The
other
is
a
braue
Prince
,
a
great
Captaine
,
beloued
of
those
ouer
whom
he
commandeth
,
esteemed
of
the
others
as
I
haue
said
,
who
hath
vsed
great
moderation
,
and
obserued
his
faith
to
his
people
,
that
are
alreadie
highly
pleased
with
that
manner
of
gouernment
,
which
his
mother
had
vsed
before
him
:
who
hath
purchased
great
credite
amongest
them
,
and
that
enough
,
to
make
him
hereafter
able
to
keepe
this
portion
instead
of
Portugall
,
which
to
his
iudgement
the
king
of
Spaine
hath
taken
from
him
:
and
who
howsoeuer
it
be
,
will
be
grieued
that
all
his
labours
should
be
dedicated
to
a
maid
,
or
to
a
little
boy
.
The
Dutchie
of
Mylan
is
neare
vnto
the
Duke
of
Sauoy
:
hee
wil
pretend
right
vnto
it
,
in
the
behalfe
of
his
wife
,
and
according
to
his
contract
of
marriage
?
The
kingdome
of
Naples
,
and
the
townes
of
Italie
will
follow
the
fortune
of
the
Dutchie
of
Mylan
.
Portugall
is
hee
as
yet
scarce
assured
of
:
the
Portugalles
greeued
that
Spaniards
should
rule
ouer
them
,
as
much
the
more
their
enimies
as
they
are
neerer
vnto
them
,
as
it
is
an
ordinarie
thing
to
all
people
.
The
Indies
a●
well
the
Portiugalles
as
the
Spanish
ones
,
the
onelie
sinnew
of
this
state
,
will
belong
vnto
him
that
shall
possesse
either
Portugall
or
Spaine
.
The
case
thus
standing
,
this
Prince
hath
hencefoorth
more
neede
to
thinke
vpon
the
preseruation
of
his
house
,
and
his
Lordships
(
which
doubtlesse
are
like
to
be
deuided
after
his
death
)
then
to
trouble
his
neighbours
.
To
speake
the
trueth
,
hee
is
rich
:
but
hee
is
at
infinite
charges
,
scarse
hauing
any
countrie
where
hee
is
not
forced
to
keepe
a
great
garrison
.
That
he
standeth
in
neede
,
he
maketh
it
knowne
sufficiently
to
the
troupes
which
hee
keepeth
in
Flanders
,
where
he
is
sometimes
a
yeare
or
eighteene
monethes
without
giuing
them
a
pennie
.
As
hee
is
rich
of
money
,
so
hee
is
poore
of
men
:
hee
can
get
none
but
onely
out
of
Germanie
,
out
of
Spaine
,
out
of
Italie
,
or
out
of
Burgundie
.
Now
therefore
marke
his
weakenesse
.
As
touching
the
Germaines
,
if
wee
were
all
vnited
togither
,
wee
would
keep
him
either
from
raising
vp
any
,
or
from
bringing
through
any
,
the
Italians
and
Spaniards
,
of
whome
he
can
furnish
no
great
number
,
(
for
they
are
no
populous
countries
,
as
euerie
man
knoweth
.
)
Before
they
can
come
to
deale
either
with
France
,
the
low
countries
,
or
Germanie
,
the
places
where
wee
are
,
he
must
leade
them
either
by
sea
,
or
through
such
hard
waies
,
that
if
we
were
all
of
one
minde
,
hee
should
loose
halfe
of
them
before
they
were
able
to
doo
him
anie
seruice
.
The
Spaniards
cannot
come
but
either
by
sea
,
or
ouer
the
mounts
Pyrenees
:
The
Italians
ouer
the
Alpes
,
or
thorough
Germanie
:
such
wayes
,
as
if
wee
would
we
might
stop
them
all
.
Last
of
all
,
there
is
nothing
more
wretched
than
himselfe
in
his
owne
countrie
,
nothing
so
easie
to
bee
beaten
.
And
it
is
most
sure
that
hee
might
easily
haue
beene
ouerthrowne
by
Portugall
,
if
he
had
beene
liuely
set
vpon
that
way
,
since
Don
Antonio
was
driuen
out
of
it
.
Thus
haue
you
briefly
the
state
which
the
migthiest
of
our
enimies
is
in
.
Which
to
my
iudgement
,
being
well
considered
,
ought
not
to
seeme
so
mightie
,
as
hee
is
esteemed
.
The
effectes
with
all
and
example
doo
declare
it
:
Seeing
that
in
twentie
yeares
,
that
he
hath
imployed
to
conquere
Flanders
againe
,
the
onely
place
where
he
hath
employed
all
his
power
,
he
hath
not
profited
much
▪
yet
can
it
not
be
saide
that
hee
hath
founde
there
any
resistance
woorthie
of
him
:
notwithstanding
it
is
euident
,
that
,
had
it
not
beene
for
the
late
Mounsieurs
euill
rule
,
and
the
Prince
of
Oranges
death
,
most
wretchedly
by
murthered
,
a
manifest
token
of
this
enimies
weakenes
,
hee
was
almost
driuen
to
dispaire
,
and
had
lost
all
these
Countries
,
without
anie
remission
,
whatsoeuer
hee
could
haue
doone
.
When
our
enimies
state
shall
thus
be
considered
one
by
one
,
it
shall
bee
founde
according
to
the
common
saying
,
That
all
is
not
golde
that
glistereth
.
But
if
they
bee
yet
nearer
obserued
in
grosse
,
it
will
stande
well
with
that
iudgement
which
I
giue
of
them
.
They
shall
be
all
founde
farre
distant
in
places
and
Countries
.
The
greatest
and
strongest
part
is
in
Spaine
,
and
Italie
:
yet
they
bee
distant
foure
hundreth
Leagues
by
lande
:
the
other
is
in
France
,
but
it
is
such
a
small
thing
,
that
if
the
power
of
Spaine
and
Italie
shoulde
not
ioyne
together
to
helpe
it
,
it
woulde
bee
soone
smothered
vp
.
Wee
shall
see
that
each
of
these
partakers
,
which
enter
into
this
generall
League
,
doo
bring
but
the
least
part
of
their
wishes
vnto
the
generall
intent
,
all
the
rest
beeing
for
their
owne
particular
,
wee
shall
finde
that
the
most
of
them
tende
in
manner
to
one
thing
:
the
king
of
Spaine
,
the
Duke
of
Lorraine
,
or
Sauoy
,
and
of
Guize
,
to
the
Crowne
of
France
.
Wherein
,
it
cannot
be
chosen
but
that
there
be
some
gelousies
,
and
that
the
same
thing
which
vniteth
them
,
seuereth
them
againe
.
We
shall
see
also
,
that
they
haue
contrarie
purposes
one
to
another
,
as
those
which
I
haue
obserued
of
the
Duke
of
Parma
,
and
the
Duke
of
Sauoy
.
And
in
fine
,
wee
shall
marke
that
of
the
two
last
,
viz.
the
King
of
Spaine
&
the
Pope
,
who
are
as
it
were
the
pillers
of
this
league
:
the
one
is
extreme
old
and
so
sicke
,
that
euen
this
yeare
hee
hath
giuen
ouer
all
manner
of
businesse
:
yea
so
farre
foorth
,
that
manie
are
of
opinion
that
age
hath
bereaued
him
of
his
senses
.
The
other
,
which
is
the
Pope
,
can
make
no
reckoning
of
his
power
,
but
so
long
as
hee
shall
liue
:
and
considering
his
age
,
hee
cannot
liue
long
,
leauing
perchaunce
such
a
successour
as
will
rather
busie
himselfe
to
builde
vp
his
owne
house
,
then
to
pull
downe
another
mans
:
that
wil
rather
deuise
new
practise●
,
then
follow
his
Predecessors
.
Thus
haue
you
by
whole
and
piece
〈◊〉
seene
all
our
enimies
forces
.
Now
if
against
their
generall
meanes
we
oppose
ours
generally
:
if
wee
gather
together
those
of
the
Queene
of
England
:
of
the
king
of
Nauarre
:
of
the
king
of
Denmarke
:
of
the
Princes
of
Germanie
:
of
the
states
of
the
lowe
countries
and
of
the
Cantons
of
Switzerlande
,
what
a
power
shall
we
finde
?
If
we
vse
ours
against
them
,
by
reason
of
the
commoditie
we
haue
,
to
ioyne
our selues
without
any
let
,
France
,
England
,
Germanie
,
both
high
and
low
,
and
Switzerlande
,
ioyning
one
to
an
other
,
shall
we
not
sooner
ouerthrow
all
their
practises
,
than
they
can
take
them
in
hand
?
We
I
say
whom
our
religion
may
knit
surer
togither
then
them
,
as
beeing
better
than
theirs
:
wee
that
haue
no
other
purpose
but
to
defend
our selues
and
maintaine
our
rightes
,
which
vnited
vs
togither
:
who
haue
no
particular
intent
that
might
breed
any
gelousie
amongst
vs
,
or
beeing
contrarie
might
diuide
vs
.
There
is
no
doubt
of
it
:
let
vs
them
see
the
proofe
.
It
is
three
yeares
agone
,
since
the
king
of
Spaine
cut
downe
all
the
Forestes
of
Italy
to
builde
his
Carraqu●●●
buyeth
all
the
moores
of
Affrica
,
to
make
Galley
slaues
:
turneth
the
Indies
vpside
downe
,
with
digging
and
seeking
to
finde
out
an
the
Goldmines
,
as
though
he
had
no
more
to
do
hereafter
.
It
is
three
yeares
agone
since
he
had
no
other
speech
but
of
Ankers
,
of
Cables
,
of
ropes
and
sayles
:
since
hee
threatneth
the
Ocean
,
if
it
doth
not
vse
his
shippes
gently
:
since
that
hee
chargeth
the
windes
to
fauour
them
,
and
all
this
to
make
vp
a
mightie
and
spanish
(
that
is
to
say
)
proud
armie
by
sea
,
whose
shadowe
alone
may
cause
not
onely
the
masts
of
ships
,
but
also
all
the
toppes
of
the
steeples
of
England
to
stoope
.
For
these
three
yeres
space
he
is
with
child
of
an
armie
.
And
to
speake
the
truth
,
as
these
great
peeces
of
worke
are
not
soone
brought
foorth
,
nor
with
ease
,
so
he
bestoweth
much
time
&
labour
to
be
deliuered
of
it
:
but
things
commonly
are
lesser
at
their
birth
then
men
thinke
of
.
Then
in
the
end
it
shall
be
borne
in
Biscay
,
weaned
at
Conquet
,
and
finding
it selfe
right
against
Englande
,
it
shall
haue
strength
and
stature
enough
to
receiue
the
order
of
knighthood
.
Doth
not
this
proue
,
that
in
one
only
place
,
viz.
Englande
we
are
able
to
resist
the
most
dangers
of
our
enimies
?
It
is
three
yeares
since
hee
threatned
it
,
hee
hath
not
yet
so
much
as
made
it
afraid
.
Tush
,
when
will
he
be
able
to
hurt
it
?
It
is
as
long
since
the
Duke
of
Guize
(
who
in
a
maner
plaieth
with
the
king
and
the
realme
of
France
,
his
power
being
holpen
with
money
out
of
Spaine
,
with
the
forces
of
the
Prince
of
Parma
,
and
all
the
Catholike
states
)
maketh
warre
against
the
king
of
Nauarre
:
in
which
space
there
hath
beene
eight
armies
by
land
leuied
to
that
purpose
,
and
the
ninth
by
seas
.
Of
nine
of
them
thankes
be
to
God
,
eight
are
gone
backe
againe
without
doing
any
thing
:
the
ninth
hath
been
quite
ouerthrowen
in
a
battaile
.
Now
,
if
it
can
not
be
said
that
this
poore
Prince
was
in
the
meane
while
assisted
eyther
with
one
pennie
or
one
man
,
the
money
&
helpes
which
his
friends
had
sent
him
,
being
not
yet
come
as
far
as
vnto
him
,
is
it
not
a
certaine
proofe
that
this
people
hath
more
facing
than
doings
.
It
is
twenty
yeares
since
that
the
low
countries
are
set
vpon
by
the
same
king
of
Spaine
,
with
all
the
forces
that
he
could
make
out
of
his
countrie
,
out
of
Italy
,
and
all
those
that
he
could
get
out
of
Germany
.
He
hath
bin
alwaies
fortunate
in
it
.
Almost
all
the
battailes
that
haue
bin
fought
there
he
hath
wonne
.
What
hath
he
done
.
They
are
yet
at
this
day
in
such
a
case
,
as
if
they
can
once
haue
good
correspondence
one
with
an
other
,
he
is
to
begin
of
new
,
&
in
danger
of
loosing
his
labor
,
his
paines
,
&
his
charges
that
he
hath
laid
out
in
that
country
.
Iudge
you
now
,
if
so
it
were
that
the
king
of
Denmark
the
Princes
of
Germany
,
&
the
Cantons
of
the
Switzers
,
which
they
durst
not
meddle
withall
,
had
brought
their
helpes
&
forces
to
make
these
violent
dealings
of
the
king
of
Spaine
in
Flanders
and
England
to
cease
,
and
those
of
Guize
in
France
:
how
long
to
mans
iudgment
,
were
they
able
to
stand
before
vs
?
I
leaue
more
to
conclude
hereupon
,
that
I
speake
not
of
.
In
the
mean
while
,
although
we
haue
mo
forces
then
they
,
that
we
haue
better
meanes
of
intelligence
one
with
an
other
,
yet
doo
they
agree
better
one
with
an
other
then
we
do
,
&
are
stronger
than
we
are
.
Let
vs
returne
that
reproch
vnto
our
negligence
:
and
not
attribute
it
vnto
their
industrie
:
to
our
base
minds
,
and
not
to
their
courage
.
God
hath
put
into
our
handes
the
meanes
both
to
liue
at
rest
&
to
defend
our selues
from
their
tyranny
:
yea
&
to
bring
them
vnder
the
yoke
,
if
wee
would
so
doo
.
But
to
make
an
end
of
this
speech
diuine
like
,
euen
as
I
haue
begun
it
,
I
beleeue
that
it
is
the
same
God
,
and
the
same
Lorde
,
who
will
not
haue
vs
to
hold
our
deliuerance
as
from
our selues
,
neither
from
our
owne
arme
,
but
from
him
alone
.
Mee
thinketh
that
my
minde
is
nowe
much
eased
,
when
that
after
I
haue
runne
ouer
all
Europe
,
which
is
altogether
almost
troubled
and
afflicted
with
dissentions
in
religion
,
I
returne
vnto
France
,
which
I
thought
onely
to
haue
beene
plagued
with
this
euill
.
God
visiteth
not
it
onely
,
neither
is
it
alone
threatned
:
other
places
haue
their
part
,
I
returne
then
to
her
againe
better
satisfied
then
I
was
,
to
conclude
this
discourse
which
I
began
for
her
sake
.
This
visarde
,
this
vaile
,
which
had
bleared
vp
first
the
kings
eies
,
and
after
him
all
the
Frenchmens
,
is
at
length
pulled
away
.
When
the
league
began
first
,
three
yeares
agone
,
there
were
men
yet
that
were
either
so
without
shame
,
or
without
sense
,
as
that
they
excused
this
rebelling
,
they
shadowed
it
with
a
zeale
of
religion
,
with
a
care
,
least
that
after
a
good
catholike
king
,
there
should
succeede
him
a
Huguonet
.
This
serued
the
traitors
pretence
that
were
about
the
Prince
,
whom
they
knew
so
dedicated
and
passionate
towards
his
owne
religion
,
that
euen
with
this
worde
they
stopped
his
mouth
,
they
tooke
away
from
him
all
manner
of
replying
together
with
all
the
meanes
that
he
might
vse
to
iudge
what
he
had
to
do
about
this
matter
.
But
nowe
,
I
do
not
thinke
that
there
is
any
bodie
in
all
the
realme
,
nay
not
the
veriest
Iesuite
,
that
could
excuse
the
Duke
of
Guizes
attempt
at
Paris
,
against
his
owne
king
.
What
a
maner
of
one
it
was
,
I
desire
no
other
discourse
then
his
owne
,
the
very
same
which
he
hath
published
.
Now
if
one
should
aske
what
,
in
my
minde
will
ensue
vpon
it
?
hee
should
trouble
me
shrewdly
.
I
haue
saide
elsewhere
,
that
nothing
is
more
dangerous
for
a
king
,
then
the
empairing
of
his
Maiestie
:
that
there
is
nothing
which
diminisheth
it
more
,
then
if
hee
shewe
,
that
hee
feareth
some
bodie
in
his
realme
:
it
is
a
kinde
of
feare
,
to
suffer
presumpteousnes
,
and
not
punish
it
:
Yet
when
it
is
but
a
common
presumption
which
concerneth
particular
ones
,
the
cloke
of
gentle
clemencie
sometimes
doth
excuse
thnorousnesse
:
but
if
it
bee
towards
the
Prince
himself
,
if
it
doth
violate
the
holy
respect
which
men
owe
to
the
sacred
person
of
the
king
:
whosoeuer
suffreth
them
,
is
no
longer
king
.
If
this
vnexcusable
trecherie
be
pardoned
,
if
the
king
letteth
it
slippe
vnder
silence
,
it
may
be
well
said
,
Sceleris
finem
putas
?
gradus
est
.
And
there
is
no
doubt
but
that
within
these
two
yeares
there
will
be
such
bold
and
villanous
actions
committed
,
as
that
this
shall
bee
counted
but
for
a
light
tricke
of
youth
.
I
am
of
the
reformed
religion
,
thankes
be
to
God
,
who
hath
vouchsafed
to
make
me
such
an
one
:
me
,
I
say
,
who
through
the
forgetfulnesse
of
his
great
benefites
,
had
made
my selfe
altogether
vnworthie
of
this
latter
one
,
which
is
not
to
be
compared
with
any
other
:
neuerthelesse
,
if
so
it
were
that
the
king
should
thinke
that
the
king
of
Nauarre
and
wee
with
him
had
attempted
such
treacherous
and
detestable
practises
against
his
life
,
and
estate
,
that
with
good
conscience
hee
might
not
pardon
vs
.
God
forbid
,
that
vnder
pretence
of
this
quarrell
I
shoulde
counsell
him
to
call
vs
to
him
,
to
forget
our
offences
,
and
to
vse
our
helpe
to
bring
him
out
of
those
troubles
,
whereinto
hee
is
put
daylie
by
his
owne
folkes
.
But
not
as
a
Frenchman
,
not
as
a
Christian
▪
but
as
a
man
,
I
dare
wel
counsel
him
.
What
,
counsaile
him
?
nay
prophecie
,
that
if
this
argument
of
the
wrath
of
God
against
him
,
doth
not
stirre
him
vp
to
wish
his
owne
good
,
and
with
his
owne
good
,
the
quietnesse
of
this
realme
:
the
way
of
peace
:
the
meanes
to
become
a
king
:
to
take
away
all
part
takings
out
of
his
realme
,
except
his
owne
:
and
as
the
Scepter
belongeth
to
none
but
himselfe
,
not
to
suffer
it
to
bee
broken
in
peeces
,
and
euerie
one
most
vnwoorthilie
to
carrie
away
a
morsell
of
it
,
himselfe
being
the
first
,
and
most
true
cause
of
his
mischiefe
,
let
him
bee
assured
,
that
in
steede
of
taking
it
away
from
him
,
God
will
encrease
it
double
folde
vnto
him
.
I
will
not
only
speake
of
those
of
the
league
.
I
doo
yet
speake
of
our selues
.
That
which
others
do
through
wickednes
,
we
do
it
by
necessitie
:
yet
notwithstanding
al
is
a
like
to
him
in
regard
of
his
crown
:
it
is
as
well
spoyled
,
and
pulled
a
sunder
by
the
one
as
by
the
other
:
his
people
as
much
troden
downe
by
vs
as
by
the
league
.
And
were
it
not
that
we
defend
our selues
,
wher
they
set
vppon
vs
:
that
where
wee
are
pursued
,
they
pursue
:
that
where
wee
submit
alwaies
our selues
vnto
him
,
the
others
would
submit
him
vnto
them
:
it
might
be
well
said
,
that
the
harme
which
we
doo
perforce
vnto
his
realme
,
is
as
great
as
that
which
they
doo
for
their
pleasure
,
and
to
sati●●ie
their
ambition
.
For
this
euill
,
alas
,
there
is
but
one
remedie
:
let
him
onely
take
vpon
him
to
remedie
it
,
hee
may
be
a
peaceable
and
absolute
king
,
obeyed
,
feared
,
beloued
,
dreadfull
,
if
he
list
.
But
what
do
we
wish
that
God
should
put
the
power
into
his
handes
,
except
first
hee
hath
the
will
in
his
heart
?
Mightie
Prince
,
why
doost
thou
not
beleeue
thy selfe
?
thou
hast
nor
so
faithfull
a
counsailour
.
I
haue
hearde
thee
heeretofore
blame
the
king
of
Portugals
fault
,
who
aduentured
all
his
state
vppon
one
battaile
:
as
iudging
wisely
,
that
there
is
nothing
more
miserable
then
a
disherited
Prince
.
Oh!
where
hast
thou
laide
vp
thy
wisedome
?
thou
venturest
thy selfe
vppon
lesse
a
hundreth
times
then
a
battaile
.
Who
hath
bin
able
to
perswade
thee
,
that
these
men
who
haue
no
other
desire
then
thy
death
,
no
other
scope
then
thy
crowne
,
will
lay
downe
their
weapons
which
they
haue
vowed
against
thee
onely
,
when
they
see
thee
bitterly
bent
,
and
verie
cruel
against
those
of
the
religion
?
No
no
,
thou
must
giue
ouer
thy
crowne
,
else
thou
shalt
neuer
haue
peace
with
them
:
and
I
beleeue
if
thou
couldest
giue
it
ouer
without
danger
of
thy
life
withall
,
thou
hast
enough
about
thee
that
haue
such
brasen
faces
,
as
to
counsell
thee
thereto
.
They
haue
driuen
thee
out
of
Paris
which
neuer
the
Englishmen
,
the
Spaniards
,
nor
the
Germaines
did
thy
great
grandfathers
:
yet
by
thy
letters
patents
thou
shewest
vnto
thy
people
,
that
in
stead
of
reuenging
thy selfe
of
it
,
it
seeme
th●thou
thinkest
it
verie
long
,
vntil
they
haue
pardoned
thee
.
Thou
commandest
them
to
pray
to
God
for
this
reconcilement
:
there
is
then
belike
no
other
danger
to
lift
vp
any
mans
hand
against
his
king
.
Beleeue
them
,
that
he
that
durst
to
day
make
thee
flie
,
wil
dare
to
kil
thee
to
morrow
.
But
is
not
this
,
oh
mightie
king
,
an
aduenturing
of
thy selfe
,
when
thou
lettest
thy
subiects
perceiue
that
it
is
so
easie
a
matter
to
attempt
against
thee
:
when
in
stead
of
reuenging
thy selfe
,
thou
praiest
that
those
may
be
pacified
,
whom
thou
oughtest
to
haue
punished
?
Who
could
so
mischieuously
perswade
thee
that
the
remedy
of
my
mischief
was
the
ciuil
war●
that
by
that
course
thou
shouldest
recouer
thine
authoritie
ouer
thy
subiects
.
Alas
▪
how
art
thou
deceiued
?
There
is
nothing
more
dangerous
in
a
building
then
fire
:
in
a
bodie
,
then
a
continuall
feuer
:
and
in
a
state
,
then
a
ciuill
warre
.
If
thou
wilt
remedie
these
euils
,
quench
the
fire
which
burneth
thy
house
:
asswage
the
continuall
feuer
of
the
bodie
of
thy
estate
,
giue
it
peace
.
For
that
is
the
onely
meane
to
preserue
thy
realme
.
Thou
saist
that
if
thou
shouldest
but
pronounce
this
worde
of
peace
to
them
of
the
religion
,
thou
shouldest
haue
presently
vppon
it
all
the
catholike
armies
of
Christendome
against
thee
,
which
wil
spoile
thee
of
thy
state
.
Yea
if
thou
pronouncest
it
as
hee
that
latelie
fled
away
from
Paris
,
before
the
duke
of
Guize
.
But
pronounce
it
as
he
that
wanne
the
battailes
of
Iarnac
and
Moncontour
,
who
alone
wert
more
dreadfull
then
all
the
rest
of
thine
armie
:
vtter
it
onely
after
that
sort
,
that
thou
shalt
finde
all
men
to
tremble
.
If
vpon
this
good
and
holie
resolution
,
thou
wilt
arme
thy selfe
,
England
,
Germanie
,
&
Suitzerland
will
couer
all
thy
plaines
with
horse
and
armed
men
,
for
thy
seruice
.
They
will
send
thee
sufficient
forces
to
beate
Spaine
and
Italie
,
yea
and
thy
France
,
if
it
were
ioyned
with
them
.
Thinke
thou
that
this
will
be
first
the
benefit
of
thy
realme
,
and
it
will
be
easie
afterward
so
to
perswade
thy
people
,
when
thy selfe
shalt
belieue
it
.
And
thy
people
,
if
thou
bee
willing
of
it
,
they
will
account
all
such
as
shall
wish
the
contrarie
to
bee
their
enimies
and
thine
.
But
thou
fearest
the
league
:
Who
then
shall
bee
bolde
for
thee
:
whence
shall
wee
take
courage
but
from
thine
.
Grant
a
reasonable
peace
and
quietnesse
vnto
thy
subiectes
,
begin
with
thine
owne
first
:
with
the
catholikes
,
make
them
to
bee
content
with
reason
,
and
feare
not
then
but
the
rest
wil
be
brought
to
it
:
they
are
too
weake
to
stand
against
thee
in
an
euill
cause
.
Such
a
one
will
theirs
be
if
they
refuse
an
indifferent
peace
:
but
they
will
not
doo
so
:
they
neuer
did
it
.
It
is
too
common
a
prouerbe
in
thy
court
.
Let
them
be
pleased
with
a
sermon
.
Thou
art
yet
afraide
:
good
Lord
of
whom
?
of
the
king
of
Spaine
?
Shew
him
the
pictures
of
thy
father
,
and
thy
grandfather
,
and
he
will
tremble
euen
to
the
farthest
of
Castile
.
Of
the
Pope
?
Hast
thou
not
yet
about
thee
some
heires
of
Charles
of
Bourbon
?
these
are
but
toies
.
How
can
it
bee
possible
,
that
thou
who
hast
seene
so
much
,
who
hast
handled
so
many
matters
,
who
hast
so
great
experience
,
canst
haue
this
apprehension
engraued
so
deepe
within
thee
,
and
vppon
so
small
an
occasion
?
Beleeue
these
two
principles
:
the
one
,
that
thy
enimies
haue
their
best
friende
of
thee
:
the
other
,
that
if
it
were
not
for
that
blacke
cloud
which
thou
seest
about
Rochell
,
which
they
feare
more
than
thee
,
they
would
haue
buried
thee
long
agone
:
but
yet
adde
this
third
also
,
and
beleeue
it
,
that
whensoeuer
thou
shalt
earnestly
wish
the
good
and
rest
of
thine
estate
,
it
shall
lie
in
thy
power
to
be
master
,
to
bring
as
well
the
one
as
the
other
so
farre
vnder
,
in
respect
of
thy
obedience
,
and
thy
place
,
that
they
shall
not
be
able
to
turne
an
Egge
,
without
thy
leaue
.
They
perswade
thee
,
that
the
strongest
side
is
the
catholikes
,
and
that
thou
must
needs
ground
thy selfe
verie
deepe
therein
,
and
become
chiefe
of
it
,
to
take
away
this
title
from
the
Duke
of
Guize
.
They
perswade
thee
,
but
they
deceiue
thee
.
The
parties
ought
not
to
receiue
thee
,
neither
thou
to
go
vnto
them
.
They
ought
to
come
to
thee
,
&
thou
to
receiue
them
.
To
be
a
king
is
thy
part
:
thou
hast
no
need
of
any
other
:
let
all
the
rest
yeeld
vnto
this
.
What
meaneth
this
?
that
a
king
of
France
shoulde
enter
into
gelousie
with
a
Duke
of
Guize
,
that
he
should
be
put
in
danger
of
loosing
his
credit
by
his
meanes
.
Doest
thou
not
know
that
this
gelousie
maketh
thee
equal
?
and
presently
being
equal
,
inferiour
?
well
may
there
be
steps
to
clime
vp
to
a
crowne
,
but
there
is
none
to
come
downe
:
it
is
a
downe
right
fal
.
If
a
king
come
neuer
so
little
downeward
,
he
falleth
down
right
.
They
counsell
thee
to
feigne
thy selfe
sore
angred
against
vs
:
after
thou
hast
feigned
a
while
,
thou
becommest
so
in
earnest
.
They
yet
deceiue
thee
more
,
and
were
it
not
for
thy
affection
to
thy
religion
,
thou
mightest
iudge
easily
of
it
.
Assure
thy selfe
that
this
D.
which
becommeth
so
mightie
in
thy
realme
,
keepeth
to
no
otherend
the
best
part
of
that
which
he
hath
with
him
,
but
onely
because
it
is
to
thy selfe
that
he
hath
a
meaning
to
.
Doost
thou
thinke
that
those
which
serue
him
haue
no
other
scope
then
the
destruction
of
the
Huguonets
?
No
,
no.
What
is
there
to
be
gotten
against
them
?
If
I
had
giuen
my selfe
ouer
to
follow
him
,
for
my
part
I
would
thinke
to
haue
done
it
,
in
respect
of
his
hope
to
be
king
one
day
.
For
that
he
should
be
thought
well
of
in
respect
of
his
zeale
towards
his
catholike
religion
,
in
putting
manie
Huguonets
to
death
,
it
will
serue
to
raise
vp
all
the
porters
of
Paris
,
and
make
them
crie
:
Haue
amongst
the
Huguonets
.
Those
which
are
sufficient
to
helpe
him
to
turne
vp
a
realme
,
haue
other
considerations
then
that
.
Now
these
considerations
are
not
put
out
of
their
heads
,
by
thy
fierce
countenance
against
those
of
their
religion
,
and
thy
quaking
lookes
towards
the
league
.
This
is
contrariwise
,
the
way
to
encrease
them
,
their
helpes
,
their
seruants
,
and
their
authoritie
.
When
men
see
,
that
thou
shewest
,
that
thou
art
thy selfe
afraide
of
them
:
who
then
shall
not
feare
them
?
What
emboldeneth
men
,
but
impunitie
?
Of
nature
wee
loue
to
be
at
libertie
.
There
was
neuer
any
realme
but
that
it
did
striue
to
become
,
if
it
were
possible
,
a
popular
estate
.
There
is
nothing
that
a
prince
ought
to
keepe
more
preciously
then
his
respect
,
his
maiestie
,
and
his
feare
:
which
being
once
lost
,
can
neuer
bee
recouered
,
but
onely
by
such
things
as
breed
feare
,
that
is
to
say
,
by
violence
and
crueltie
.
Mightie
king
,
thou
shalt
accept
this
speech
as
it
shall
please
thee
:
it
belongeth
not
to
mee
to
limit
thy
purposes
.
But
if
thou
readest
it
with
as
much
passion
for
thine
owne
good
,
as
I
write
it
,
thou
shalt
thinke
,
if
any
too
violent
a
word
dooth
escape
me
,
yea
against
thee
,
that
it
is
the
verie
indignation
and
hart
burning
that
forceth
mee
vnto
it
,
when
I
see
the
wrong
and
iniuries
that
are
done
vnto
thee
:
to
the
which
it
seemeth
after
a
manner
,
thou
doost
consent
by
thy
patience
.
Do
not
thinke
that
I
did
meane
to
accuse
the
courage
which
is
in
thy selfe
:
all
Europe
woulde
giue
me
the
lie
:
and
if
thou
wouldest
haue
any
witnesses
of
it
,
thou
shouldest
neede
none
but
our selues
(
whome
thou
hast
beaten
so
often
)
to
speake
of
it
.
Verelie
beleeue
,
that
the
griefe
which
I
conceiue
to
see
thee
suffer
through
euill
counsaile
,
those
bolde
partes
which
are
onelie
attempted
vppon
confidence
that
thou
wilt
suffer
them
,
doo
wrest
this
both
out
of
my
heart
and
my
penne
.
I
knowe
that
all
those
which
are
about
thee
,
haue
hither
to
betraied
thee
:
that
that
which
thou
hast
done
against
thy selfe
,
thou
hast
done
it
by
taking
that
counsell
,
where
by
contrariwise
other
princes
do
most
commonly
erre
,
that
is
,
by
beleeuing
of
counsaile
.
I
was
present
when
it
was
tolde
thee
,
that
all
thy
townes
,
all
thy
people
,
all
thy
prouinces
were
alreadie
the
duke
of
Guizes
,
all
thy
men
were
his
.
They
told
thee
it
,
but
none
other
then
themselues
that
tolde
thee
it
,
were
belonging
vnto
him
:
and
tkey
did
tell
thee
it
to
no
other
end
,
but
onely
to
sell
thee
,
and
betray
thee
vnto
him
.
The
strongest
armies
of
the
league
which
are
against
thee
,
haue
beene
in
thy
court
,
in
thy
counsell
,
in
thy
priuie
chamber
.
So
that
it
was
verie
hard
but
that
thou
shouldest
be
hindered
by
so
many
thinges
contrarie
to
thy
good
purposes
.
But
seeing
that
God
in
this
last
danger
where
into
hee
had
brought
thee
,
hath
taken
away
al
excuse
,
&
occasion
of
doubt
,
let
this
at
the
least
giue
thee
a
mind
to
loue
thine
owne
selfe
more
than
thou
hast
done
:
to
will
earnestly
thy
own
good
,
thy
rest
,
thy
highnesse
:
and
when
thou
shalt
wish
it
,
thou
shalt
by
consequent
,
wish
thy
realmes
withall
.
I
wil
end
in
thee
,
thou
firebrand
of
the
war
,
which
hast
turned
to
the
destruction
of
thy
king
and
countrie
,
those
great
graces
which
God
had
giuen
thee
,
for
to
haue
bin
able
to
haue
done
worthie
seruice
as
well
to
the
one
,
as
the
other
.
Doost
thou
not
thinke
to
bee
punished
one
day
for
the
parricide
which
thou
committest
against
thine
own
mother
,
for
so
many
euils
that
thou
art
cause
of
,
or
which
thou
dost
thy self
to
her
,
who
hath
done
thee
so
much
good
?
so
many
euils
I
say
,
the
which
thou
mightest
haue
remedied
,
either
by
desiring
lesse
,
or
by
desiring
more
wisely
,
or
at
least
,
by
bringing
in
thy
desires
at
length
into
some
compasse
?
Nay
,
nay
:
thou
needest
no
other
punishment
than
thine
own
practises
.
They
are
thy
torment
.
Poore
soule
,
thou
art
almost
forty
yeres
old
,
&
yet
darest
thou
not
take
vpon
thee
the
name
of
a
king
:
when
wilt
thou
bring
it
to
passe
?
Thinkest
thou
to
make
easily
an
end
of
those
which
can
barre
thee
from
thy
vaine
hope
?
For
these
thirtie
yeares
,
men
haue
lost
their
labor
in
making
war
against
them
.
I
wil
abate
thee
ten
vpon
the
bargaine
,
thou
hast
yet
twentie
left
.
What
a
king
art
thou
like
to
be
at
those
yeres
end
,
being
60.
yeares
old
?
Thou
hast
bin
heard
scoffing
at
the
cardinall
of
Bourbon
,
whom
thou
hadst
perswaded
to
haue
been
one
at
that
age
:
scarce
wilt
thou
come
sooner
to
it
,
&
yet
must
many
things
come
well
to
passe
for
●hee
.
Thou
wilt
ouerthrow
the
king
of
Nauarre
(
a
vaine
labour
,
I
am
sure
both
for
thee
and
thy
children
)
dreame
rather
to
saue
thy selfe
from
him
:
his
clawes
are
greater
than
thine
:
but
I
grant
it
,
thou
shalt
ouerthrow
him
:
and
it
were
so
,
how
wilt
thou
do
to
raigne
?
If
after
his
ouerthrow
France
lyeth
open
to
the
spoyle
,
as
it
can
hardly
choose
:
art
thou
stronger
then
the
king
of
Spaine
?
hast
thou
more
right
than
he
hath
?
More
than
the
Duke
of
Sauoy
,
who
is
sonne
vnto
a
daughter
of
France
,
and
nearer
of
bloud
than
thou
,
&
is
married
also
vnto
a
daughters
daughter
of
France
?
More
than
the
Duke
of
Lorraines
sonne
thine
elder
,
the
sonne
likewise
of
a
daughter
of
France
,
and
the
kings
Nephew
.
If
contrariwise
the
estate
be
kept
whole
and
found
,
howe
wilt
thou
lawfullie
take
away
the
right
from
the
Catholike
Princes
of
the
bloud
which
shal
be
remaining
,
who
are
yet
in
number
enough
,
and
young
enough
to
liue
as
long
as
thou
,
except
thou
shortnest
their
liues
?
Moreouer
,
before
all
this
commeth
to
passe
,
who
can
perswade
thee
,
that
the
king
who
reigneth
now
,
will
not
keepe
thee
from
reigning
?
thou
canst
not
so
long
as
hee
shall
liue
:
thy
first
blowes
must
beginne
with
him
(
that
canst
thou
do
well
enough
)
thou
must
make
him
awaie
:
for
he
hindreth
thee
tenne
thousand
times
more
than
the
king
of
Nauarre
:
and
except
this
bee
thy
first
intent
,
thou
hast
no
iudgement
in
thy
practises
.
For
thou
canst
not
possibly
,
whilest
he
is
aliue
,
bee
a
king
,
neither
continue
long
so
,
in
taking
the
course
that
thou
dooest
:
but
thou
purposest
to
reigne
.
What
then
poore
wretch
,
except
this
bee
it
that
driueth
thee
on
?
except
some
great
and
mightie
ambition
dooth
puffe
vp
thy
minde
,
such
a
one
as
sometimes
possessed
either
Marius
,
Sylla
,
or
Caesar
,
thou
shouldest
be
accursed
enough
heereafter
,
for
hauing
wrought
so
much
mischiefe
in
the
worlde
to
no
ende
.
Ambition
is
the
plague
of
humaine
societie
:
notwithstanding
,
it
hath
alwayes
most
gloriouslie
set
foorth
by
manie
and
woorthie
deedes
all
such
as
haue
beene
possessed
with
all
.
Let
vs
blame
ambitious
men
,
yet
doo
wee
admire
them
.
If
thou
canst
beare
so
woorthie
a
minde
,
as
to
looke
for
a
kingdome
,
there
will
bee
found
heereafter
some
bodie
that
will
saie
,
that
thou
wert
woorthie
to
haue
beene
borne
a
king
,
sith
thou
couldest
vndertake
to
haue
beene
one
.
Such
mischieues
and
calamities
as
thou
must
needes
breede
,
to
bring
it
to
passe
,
shall
not
be
paraduenture
imputed
vnto
thee
:
but
it
shall
be
said
,
that
fortune
would
by
these
meanes
make
thy
comming
notorious
,
that
thou
wert
too
great
to
come
foorth
by
an
ordinarie
gate
,
and
that
thou
must
needes
haue
ruines
to
receiue
the
and
make
thee
roome
.
Nec
aliam
venturo
fata
Ner●ni
inuenere
viam
.
Thou
shalt
also
be
found
fault
withall
:
but
many
that
shall
finde
fault
with
thee
will
wish
to
be
like
vnto
thee
:
otherwise
thou
wretch
,
if
vpon
a
villainous
mind
thou
hast
no
other
end
of
the
euill
which
thou
doest
,
then
to
hinder
the
benefite
and
quietnesse
of
all
the
world
;
what
will
our
posteritie
say
of
thee
?
who
amongest
them
will
not
call
thee
the
scourge
of
our
age
?
But
seeing
thou
canst
not
be
king
,
thou
hast
no
minde
to
be
it
:
it
is
enough
for
thee
to
trouble
and
diuide
our
estate
,
to
the
end
thou
maist
keepe
the
better
part
for
thy selfe
.
Thou
shewest
thy selfe
yet
more
wretched
.
Had
not
God
endued
thee
with
sufficient
vertue
for
to
deserue
an
honorable
portion
at
their
handes
,
to
whom
all
by
right
doth
belong
,
who
would
haue
beene
alwaies
so
glad
to
haue
thee
about
them
as
their
kinsman
,
as
thou
art
:
and
in
steede
of
a
good
and
profitable
seruant
as
thou
mightest
haue
bin
?
Hadst
thou
not
rather
haue
beene
beholding
to
thy
Prince
for
thy
good
,
in
bestowing
thy
seruice
vppon
thy
countrie
,
then
to
a
forraine
Prince
in
ouerthrowing
it
quite
?
Marke
what
thou
doest
:
thy
father
,
and
thy
grandfather
haue
allotted
vnto
the
king
of
Spaine
,
his
part
in
Italy
:
and
thou
wouldest
allot
him
it
in
France
:
Sic
ne
patrissas
?
Yet
is
not
this
all
?
What
then
?
The
onely
zeale
vnto
the
catholike
religion
doth
kindle
thy
heart
?
Thou
saiest
it
(
I
beleeue
)
in
the
face
of
the
world
,
not
in
thy
Closet
:
nay
I
am
afraid
,
except
thou
vsest
shortly
other
maner
of
termes
,
least
thou
repentest
to
haue
driuen
thy
king
out
of
Paris
.
He
is
not
an
heretike
,
no●
but
he
is
a
king
.
Whosoeuer
shall
be
it
,
either
in
deede
,
or
possibilitie
,
he
is
thine
enimie
.
Thou
wilt
make
it
knowen
at
length
,
that
it
is
onely
for
that
that
thou
medlest
with
the
king
of
Nauarre
,
and
that
thou
art
more
gelous
ouer
his
possibilitie
then
his
conscience
:
I
beleeue
it
well
.
And
if
so
be
it
were
that
he
would
suffer
thee
to
be
king
,
thou
wouldst
easily
grant
him
to
be
a
Hugnonet
.
It
is
thy
zeale
vnto
religion
:
good
Lorde
!
What
,
to
encrease
it
?
There
are
yet
so
manie
Turkes
and
Sarrasins
aliue
which
keepe
from
thee
thy
kingdome
of
Ierusalem
,
belonging
by
inheritance
to
thy
house
:
why
doest
thou
not
rather
bende
thy
practises
that
way
,
then
vpon
the
realme
of
France
?
To
defende
it
?
Tush
,
who
dealeth
with
it
?
who
durst
say
any
thing
against
the
Catholikes
?
My
opinion
then
is
,
that
thou
shouldest
perswade
vs
that
the
wolues
ought
to
take
heede
least
the
sheepe
might
surprise
them
,
that
Lions
were
best
to
mistrust
the
Deere
.
Thou
saiest
the
verye
same
.
Where
there
is
one
of
the
religion
in
France
,
there
are
a
hundred
Catholikes
.
If
the
king
of
Nauarre
should
take
that
course
,
as
to
persecute
them
during
the
kings
life
,
he
should
be
euill
handled
:
if
after
he
should
be
worse
receiued
.
Nay
,
alledge
not
these
excuses
:
men
laugh
at
them
.
Say
onely
that
thou
wouldest
reigne
,
thou
wouldest
be
king
:
it
is
the
truest
and
the
best
colour
of
thy
Ensigne
.
I
will
conclude
at
length
,
and
in
two
or
three
wordes
aunswere
those
Letters
which
thou
hast
spred
abroad
.
Thou
publishest
first
that
thou
wert
the
onelie
man
that
diddest
set
forwarde
the
voyage
of
Guyenne
,
(
Id
est
,
against
the
king
of
Nauarre
)
to
the
which
thou
hast
such
a
minde
.
But
what
needest
thou
to
stirre
vp
an
other
?
Why
goest
not
thou
thy selfe
?
Seeke
out
there
either
a
victorie
or
an
honorable
death
,
as
the
Duke
of
Ioy●use
did
.
Make
offer
vnto
the
king
to
go
in
thine
owne
person
.
Hee
will
take
thee
at
thy
woorde
:
carrie
thither
all
thy
friendes
,
all
thy
forces
,
he
will
encrease
them
with
his
owne
.
Carrie
thither
the
fire
of
war
,
seeing
it
is
there
that
thou
shouldest
finde
thine
enimies
,
and
thou
shalt
finde
them
in
deede
.
Why
doest
thou
kindle
it
in
Pycardis
?
is
there
any
heretikes
also
there
?
I
would
to
God
that
Caliis
and
Bulloine
were
as
well
minded
towardes
the
king
of
Nauarre
,
as
thou
chargest
them
to
be
:
thou
shouldest
bee
kept
well
enough
from
quarrelling
at
Paris
.
Thou
shouldest
haue
leasure
enough
to
enclose
thy selfe
within
Challons
,
and
thinke
vpon
nothing
else
but
thine
owne
defence
.
This
is
the
matter
.
Thou
wouldest
that
the
king
should
leaue
in
thy
handes
the
protection
of
France
,
and
that
hee
should
goe
and
make
warre
in
thy
quarrell
in
G●●enne
,
that
hee
shoulde
ouerthrowe
thine
enimie
the
king
of
Nauarre
,
that
hee
shoulde
giue
order
vnto
thy
affaires
,
to
the
ende
,
that
whilest
hee
shoulde
there
busie
himselfe
about
the
beating
of
some
sconce
,
thou
mightest
heere
take
some
good
towne
from
him
:
and
vppon
condition
,
that
whensoeuer
hee
would
returne
,
he
should
giue
thee
roome
,
as
often
as
it
shoulde
please
thee
.
I
grant
thee
it
:
it
is
well
and
wisely
considered
of
thee
:
but
yet
is
hee
wiser
than
thou
art
,
in
that
hee
will
not
doo
so
.
Thou
saiest
that
the
Duke
of
Espernon
fauoureth
the
Heretikes
:
all
those
that
barre
thee
from
beeing
king
are
Heretikes
,
according
vnto
thy
reckoning
:
or
at
least
,
they
fauour
them
.
There
will
be
then
enough
in
the
worlde
,
if
God
will
.
Thinke
this
to
bee
most
sure
,
that
if
that
man
woulde
haue
had
but
the
least
intelligence
of
the
worlde
with
the
King
of
Nauarre
,
if
hee
had
put
into
his
hands
euen
the
least
of
those
townes
which
hee
had
in
his
power
,
or
holpen
him
neuer
so
little
with
that
commoditie
of
money
that
hee
might
haue
hadde
,
there
had
not
beene
roome
enough
in
France
to
haue
hidden
thee
:
thou
shouldest
haue
beene
vndoone
alreadie
,
I
saie
quite
vndoone
.
Giue
him
thankes
for
thy
preseruation
,
which
his
fidelitie
hath
purchased
thee
,
to
his
owne
cost
and
his
masters
.
He
is
come
,
saiest
thou
,
to
seeke
quarrelles
in
Pycardi●
,
and
in
Normandie
.
What
part
hast
thou
in
these
two
Prouinces
?
Of
the
one
,
my
late
lorde
the
Prince
of
Conde
was
gouernour
:
in
his
absence
,
there
were
Lieutenants
from
the
king
:
of
the
other
,
the
Duke
of
Ioyeuse
was
the
like
.
Neither
thou
,
nor
any
of
thy
kindred
haue
anie
right
vnto
it
.
But
soft
,
I
must
needes
excuse
thee
:
thou
wouldest
reigne
:
all
is
lawfull
for
thee
.
Thou
dooest
complaine
moreouer
,
that
there
haue
beene
slanders
spredde
abroade
against
thee
,
and
thine
honour
,
the
which
(
thankes
bee
to
God
)
thou
hast
blotted
out
by
this
latter
facte
of
thine
.
Thou
art
a
maruellous
Oratour
:
surely
it
is
true
,
thou
hast
well
cleared
thy selfe
.
Thou
wert
accused
to
haue
stirred
vp
the
people
of
certaine
townes
of
this
Realme
,
against
such
gouernours
as
the
king
would
haue
appointed
.
Thou
hast
taken
this
slander
away
,
in
raising
vp
them
of
Paris
against
the
king
himselfe
.
Thou
wert
blamed
to
haue
seised
vpon
his
money
at
Challons
,
at
Rheymes
,
at
Soyssons
,
and
euerie
where
that
thou
setst
thy
foote
.
Thou
hast
purged
thy self
in
taking
that
of
his
owne
store
in
his
chiefe
towne
.
Thou
wert
suspected
to
haue
certaine
enterprises
against
the
state
,
and
to
aspire
vnto
the
crowne
,
&
that
to
that
purpose
thou
hadst
alreadie
seised
on
some
good
townes
,
which
either
thou
or
thy
parents
did
hold
,
to
the
which
the
king
woulde
not
haue
obeyed
.
Thou
hast
put
away
this
false
report
by
thy
personall
comming
to
make
thy selfe
master
of
Paris
,
and
driuing
out
of
the
king
,
after
thou
hadst
forced
,
killed
,
and
vnarmed
his
guard
,
and
caused
the
common
people
to
rise
in
armes
against
him
.
So
that
after
this
sort
thou
gallantly
wipest
away
a
theft
with
a
sacrilege
:
a
murder
with
a
parricide
:
a
sinne
with
a
crime
.
Thy
subtletie
is
too
grosse
.
Thou
triumphest
,
that
thou
durst
come
with
eight
Gentlemen
into
Paris
,
a
token
of
thy
pure
innocency
.
These
be
great
news
.
Be
thou
in
Rochell
with
all
thy
new
court
,
all
thy
traine
,
and
all
thy
guard
:
the
king
of
Nauarre
will
come
in
with
foure
men
,
and
if
going
away
thou
doest
not
flie
,
hee
will
trouble
thee
.
This
is
easie
to
be
said
in
Britaine
:
but
those
that
know
that
all
the
kinges
councell
stand
for
thee
,
that
his
mother
fauoureth
thee
,
that
all
the
pickquarrels
,
all
the
porters
of
Paris
,
and
all
the
common
people
are
at
thy
becke
:
they
will
say
that
thy
simplicitie
was
verie
craftie
,
thy
innocencie
much
suspected
.
How
wilt
thou
haue
vs
to
beleeue
that
thou
hast
trusted
so
gently
vnto
the
king
,
seeing
that
after
the
League
was
made
,
when
you
made
your
worthie
agreement
at
S.
Mor
,
thou
wouldest
neuer
come
to
him
before
that
thou
wert
as
strong
as
hee
,
seeing
that
whilest
hee
hath
beene
in
his
armie
against
the
Reyters
,
thou
neuer
hast
set
thy
foote
towards
him
,
sauing
once
when
thou
diddest
surprise
him
,
and
that
but
a
quarter
of
an
houre
.
Nay
,
beleeue
mee
:
it
is
thy
occupation
to
worke
such
feares
,
but
not
to
excuse
them
:
thou
canst
better
doo
the
one
then
the
other
.
It
is
plaine
enough
,
seeing
thou
vauntest
thy selfe
,
that
thou
mightest
haue
retained
thy
king
,
against
his
will
.
Ah
,
what
saiest
thou
,
thou
stranger
?
retaine
a
king
of
France
?
It
is
all
that
Europe
being
confederated
were
able
to
doo
:
it
is
the
enterprise
of
an
Emperour
,
yet
a
verie
dangerous
one
.
If
thy
Grandfather
had
thought
,
that
thou
wouldest
euer
haue
pronounced
these
words
,
he
would
haue
smothered
vp
thy
father
,
to
let
thee
from
comming
into
the
world
:
in
a
peaceable
estate
,
in
a
quiet
realme
,
that
worde
onely
would
haue
cost
thee
thy
head
.
That
is
likewise
the
reason
why
thou
troublest
it
.
As
for
the
rest
of
thy
publike
letter
,
all
the
wordes
of
it
are
too
plaine
,
too
well
set
downe
to
be
found
fault
withall
.
Whilest
thou
makest
a
discourse
of
thy
valour
,
they
shewe
what
is
thine
intent
better
than
any
man
can
do
.
I
will
onely
note
the
end
of
it
,
where
thou
saiest
,
that
thou
hast
seised
vpon
the
Bastille
,
the
Arsenall
,
and
other
publike
places
,
the
kinges
Coffers
and
Exchequor
,
to
surrender
all
againe
into
his
Maiesties
handes
well
pacified
,
as
thou
hopest
to
bring
to
passe
by
the
Popes
intercession
,
and
other
the
Princes
of
Christendome
:
if
not
,
with
the
same
helpes
thou
wilt
trie
to
reskue
the
Catholikes
out
from
the
persecution
of
those
that
are
about
him
,
and
fauour
the
heretikes
.
What
a
braue
dilemma
is
this
.
I
beleeue
,
thou
meanest
not
by
pacified
,
peaceable
or
appeased
,
but
in
such
state
as
that
he
be
not
able
to
make
warre
against
thee
:
which
thou
hopest
to
procure
by
the
forces
and
helpes
of
Spaine
,
and
Italie
:
that
is
the
intercession
which
thou
meanest
.
And
in
fine
,
thou
meane
and
simple
subiect
denouncest
war
against
thy
king
.
Others
endure
it
,
thou
beginnest
it
.
If
the
late
Emperor
had
but
said
so
much
to
his
father
,
all
Christendome
woulde
haue
beene
vp
in
armes
,
both
of
one
side
,
and
other
,
vpon
this
worde
.
If
God
also
stirre
vp
his
heart
,
I
hope
it
will
be
thy
last
.
A
declaration
of
the
Kinges
pleasure
,
published
after
his
departure
from
Paris
:
importing
the
cause
of
his
sudden
and
forced
going
away
.
TRustie
and
welbeloued
.
Beeing
in
our
towne
of
Paris
,
where
we
bent
our
onelie
cogitations
to
no
other
thing
but
the
appeasing
of
all
sortes
of
ielousies
and
disturbances
in
Pycardie
&
else
where
,
which
hindered
our
iourney
into
our
countrie
of
P●ictou
,
there
to
prosecute
the
wars
enterprised
against
the
Huguonets
,
according
as
we
had
resolued
;
our
cosen
the
Duke
of
Guize
,
vnwares
to
vs
,
did
there
arriue
the
9.
of
this
moneth
.
His
comming
after
that
sort
so
encreased
the
saide
gelousies
&
distrustes
,
that
we
were
much
troubled
therwith
:
the
rather
for
that
before
we
had
from
diuers
places
beene
aduertised
,
that
he
should
come
in
such
maner
:
also
,
that
he
was
looked
for
,
by
sundry
the
inhabitants
of
the
same
towne
,
who
were
suspected
to
be
the
authors
of
the
said
distrustes
,
besides
that
our selfe
had
before
for
the
same
cause
giuen
him
to
vnderstand
,
that
wee
were
nothing
desirous
of
his
comming
before
we
had
appeased
the
aforesaid
troubles
of
Picardy
,
&
quite
taken
away
the
causes
of
the
same
.
Considering
neuerthelesse
,
that
he
came
accompanied
only
with
14.
or
15.
horses
,
we
were
content
to
see
him
,
and
that
the
rather
to
the
end
to
endeuour
so
to
deale
with
him
,
that
all
occasions
of
gelousie
and
distrust
might
be
extinguished
:
wherein
seeing
howe
smallie
wee
profited
,
as
also
that
our
said
towne
grewe
daily
more
and
more
replenished
with
gentlemen
and
strangers
,
retainers
to
the
said
Dukes
traine
:
also
that
such
searches
,
as
we
caused
the
magistrates
and
officers
thereof
to
make
,
were
through
the
feare
wherinto
they
were
driuen
,
performed
to
halfes
:
likewise
,
that
the
hearts
and
affections
of
sundry
the
inhabitants
were
daily
prouoked
,
and
more
and
more
alienated
:
togither
with
the
ordinarie
aduertisements
whereby
we
were
from
time
to
time
enformed
of
some
great
troubles
to
fall
out
in
the
same
towne
,
wee
determined
to
cause
the
saide
searches
to
bee
more
exactly
performed
thoroughout
al
the
quarters
therof
than
the
former
:
to
the
end
therby
to
discouer
&
truly
find
out
the
state
of
the
same
:
also
to
auoid
such
strangers
as
shold
be
found
not
to
be
aduowed
as
they
ought
.
For
the
performance
whereof
we
thought
it
good
to
strengthen
certaine
the
bodies
of
the
gardes
of
the
inhabitants
&
burgeses
of
the
same
towne
whom
we
had
appointed
to
be
planted
in
4.
or
5.
corners
thereof
,
with
the
companies
of
Zuitzers
,
and
such
as
were
of
the
regiments
of
our
guard
:
who
before
were
lodged
in
the
suburbs
:
also
to
command
diuers
the
lords
of
the
councel
&
knights
of
our
order
of
the
holy
ghost
,
to
march
along
the
streetes
and
quarters
therof
accompanied
with
the
quarter
masters
&
others
the
officers
of
the
saide
towne
,
such
as
haue
beene
vsually
accustomed
to
make
the
saide
searches
,
to
the
end
by
their
countenance
to
authorize
&
assist
them
in
the
same
,
as
hath
sundrie
times
bin
practised
.
Whereof
also
we
gaue
notice
to
the
said
Duke
,
&
all
the
inhabitants
of
the
said
towne
,
least
any
therof
should
take
allarome
,
or
any
whit
doubt
of
our
intent
in
this
point
:
which
order
at
the
beginning
the
Burgeses
and
dwellers
seemed
to
take
quietly
and
in
good
part
:
howbeit
within
a
while
after
matters
grewe
so
hot
,
&
that
the
rather
through
the
induction
of
diuers
who
wandring
vp
&
down
enformed
the
said
inhabitants
that
we
had
not
brought
in
the
said
forces
for
any
other
end
,
but
only
to
establish
forrein
gartisons
within
the
towne
aforesaid
,
yea
,
and
to
deale
worse
then
so
:
wherby
in
short
space
they
had
so
animated
&
stirred
them
vp
,
that
if
we
had
not
expressely
forbidden
the
leaders
of
our
troopes
from
attempting
any
thing
against
the
said
inhabitants
,
&
withall
commanded
them
rather
to
beare
and
indure
all
extremities
then
to
offer
any
violence
,
we
doo
vndoubtedly
beleeue
that
it
had
bin
vnpossible
to
eschew
the
generall
sacke
of
the
towne
,
&
much
bloudshed
.
This
when
we
perceiued
,
we
determined
to
cease
the
execution
of
the
searches
aforesaid
,
also
to
cause
our
forces
to
retire
,
whom
we
had
not
brought
in
,
but
vpon
that
only
occasion
:
as
also
it
was
no
other
like
,
but
that
if
we
had
ment
otherwise
we
wold
haue
attempted
,
yea
,
&
peraduenture
put
in
execution
whatsoeuer
our
purposes
,
before
the
rising
of
the
said
inhabitants
either
that
they
had
drawen
their
chaines
or
erected
their
defences
in
the
streetes
,
which
immediatly
after
noone
they
went
in
hand
withal
,
and
in
a
maner
in
one
instant
throughout
all
the
streetes
of
Paris
,
being
thereto
induced
and
perswaded
by
sundry
gentlemen
,
Captaines
,
&
other
strangers
sent
in
by
the
said
duke
of
Guize
,
who
to
the
same
end
,
in
verie
short
space
appeared
,
diuided
and
aranged
throughout
euerie
quarter
of
the
towne
.
Hereupon
causing
the
said
Switzers
and
french
companies
,
to
returne
,
the
said
inhabitants
to
our
great
griefe
discharged
diuerse
Harquebuze
shotte
,
and
dealt
some
blowes
which
light
chiefelie
vpon
the
sayde
Switzers
,
whom
the
same
euening
we
commanded
to
retire
&
lodge
about
our
Castle
of
the
Louure
,
there
to
expect
the
euent
of
this
commotion
of
the
said
townesmen
:
for
the
appeasing
wherof
,
we
did
al
that
possibly
we
could
,
yea
so
farre
forth
,
as
the
next
day
to
procure
all
the
said
companies
,
except
such
as
before
their
comming
in
,
we
had
placed
in
gard
before
our
said
castle
,
to
depart
the
town
,
as
being
enformed
that
in
so
doing
,
we
might
greatly
content
&
pacifie
the
said
inhabitants
:
as
also
we
caused
to
stay
some
remainder
of
the
companies
of
foot
men
of
the
regiment
of
Picardy
,
albeit
they
were
7.
or
8.
leagues
off
,
togither
with
diuers
lords
and
gentlemen
our
seruants
that
drew
vnto
vs
:
as
considering
that
the
same
had
bred
some
shadowe
to
this
people
,
also
that
they
tooke
hold
of
this
pretence
,
whereby
the
more
to
prouoke
and
stir
than
vp
.
Al
this
notwithstanding
,
in
lieu
of
finding
our
wished
effect
to
their
owne
benefit
&
our
contentation
,
they
neuerthelesse
still
proceeded
in
raising
their
bulwarkes
,
strengthening
their
gard
night
&
day
,
&
approching
the
same
toward
our
said
Castle
of
the
Louure
,
euen
to
the
very
sentinels
of
our
ordinarie
guard
,
as
also
they
seised
vpon
the
townhouse
of
the
same
towne
,
togither
with
the
keyes
of
S.
Amthonies
gate
&
other
the
gates
therof
:
so
that
by
the
13.
of
this
moneth
,
matters
were
run
so
far
,
that
it
seemed
vnpossible
by
mans
power
to
stop
the
effect
of
greater
violence
&
commotion
,
euen
before
our
said
castle
gates
.
This
when
we
perceiued
,
and
being
neuertheles
vnwilling
to
employ
our
said
forces
against
the
said
inhabitants
,
as
hauing
euermore
held
the
preseruation
of
the
said
towne
with
the
inhabitants
therof
,
as
deere
as
our
owne
life
,
as
in
sundry
their
occasions
they
haue
wel
tried
,
&
is
euident
to
al
men
,
we
determined
the
same
day
to
depart
,
and
rather
to
absent
our selues
,
&
abandon
the
place
which
aboue
all
the
world
we
most
loued
,
and
so
doo
still
desire
to
doo
,
then
to
see
it
incurre
further
hazard
,
or
receiue
greater
domage
:
hauing
withal
entreated
our
most
honorable
Lady
&
mother
to
stay
,
&
try
whether
she
might
through
her
discretion
&
autoritie
in
our
absence
be
able
to
find
any
means
,
howe
to
appease
the
saide
tumult
,
which
notwithstanding
,
whatsoeuer
her
endeuors
,
she
could
not
in
our
presence
performe
,
and
so
are
come
into
this
our
towne
of
Chartres
,
from
whence
we
thought
good
immediatly
to
send
you
these
presents
,
therein
desiring
you
to
consider
of
the
consequence
of
this
cause
,
how
preiudiciall
and
hurtfull
it
wil
be
,
in
case
it
go
forward
,
vnto
the
common
cause
,
especially
to
our
holie
catholike
,
apostolike
and
/
romish
religion
,
sith
that
they
who
were
wont
to
fight
togither
for
the
propagation
therof
,
shall
through
this
accident
(
if
it
be
not
remedied
)
be
disvnited
&
forced
to
turne
their
weapons
each
against
other
:
to
eschew
the
falling
whereinto
wee
pray
you
to
beleeue
,
that
for
our
parts
we
will
do
whatsoeuer
possibly
we
may
:
of
such
force
is
the
zeale
that
we
beare
vnto
our
said
religion
,
as
hetherto
we
haue
sufficiently
caused
to
appeare
.
We
also
,
so
much
as
in
vs
lieth
,
exhort
and
pray
you
,
to
procure
supplications
vnto
God
in
your
churches
for
this
revnion
,
as
also
for
the
obedience
vnto
vs
due
,
to
be
obserued
according
as
is
meet
,
and
not
to
suffer
the
inhabitants
of
our
town
of
M.
to
depart
the
right
pathes
therof
:
but
to
admonish
and
perswade
them
to
remaine
quiet
and
constant
in
their
loyalties
to
their
king
:
and
in
vnion
and
concord
one
with
an
other
,
so
to
maintaine
and
preserue
themselues
vnder
our
obedience
,
and
not
to
incur
the
discommodities
for
them
prouided
,
if
they
take
any
other
course
.
Thus
besides
that
you
shal
performe
an
action
worthy
your
discretions
,
fidelities
and
duties
,
which
may
be
a
notable
example
to
al
subiects
,
we
shal
yeeld
you
thanks
for
euer
,
and
acknowledge
it
to
you
and
yours
.
Giuen
at
Chartres
.
May
.
1588.
The
copie
of
a
Letter
written
by
the
duke
of
Guize
vnto
the
king
,
the
xvii
,
day
of
May
.
SIr
,
such
is
my
mishap
,
that
they
which
of
long
time
haue
by
sundry
sleights
sought
to
estrange
me
from
your
presence
and
fauour
,
haue
beene
of
power
sufficient
to
make
whatsoeuer
the
good
endeuours
that
I
haue
put
in
practise
,
for
to
come
neere
you
,
and
by
my
seruices
to
grow
into
your
Maiesties
liking
,
vtterly
vnprofitable
.
Wherof
of
late
days
(
to
my
great
griefe
)
I
haue
had
more
triall
then
euer
before
.
For
being
wearied
with
so
many
false
bruits
and
slanders
wherewith
they
haue
vsed
to
keepe
your
maiestie
in
mistrust
of
me
,
I
thought
it
good
,
euen
with
the
hazarde
of
that
with
which
I
was
threatned
,
to
iustifie
my
life
,
being
(
to
that
end
resolued
)
to
come
vnto
you
with
so
small
companie
and
so
great
confidence
&
franchise
,
as
I
hoped
therby
to
shew
,
and
that
to
euery
man
,
that
I
was
farre
off
from
that
wherewith
my
euil
willers
so
subtilly
sought
to
bring
me
into
suspition
:
but
the
enimies
of
the
common
peace
and
mine
,
not
being
able
to
abide
my
presence
about
you
,
as
imagining
that
the
same
would
in
fewe
dayes
discouer
the
subtilties
which
they
practised
to
bring
mee
into
hatred
,
and
fearing
least
by
little
and
little
I
should
recouer
your
fauour
,
they
chose
rather
by
their
pernitious
counsailes
to
bring
againe
al
things
into
confusion
,
and
to
bring
both
your
state
and
your
towne
of
Paris
into
hazarde
,
then
to
suffer
mee
to
be
about
you
.
Their
bad
minds
haue
manifestly
beene
descried
in
the
resolution
,
which
without
the
Queene
your
mothers
knowledge
,
and
the
aduise
of
your
wisest
Counsailors
,
they
haue
caused
your
maiestie
to
take
:
that
is
,
by
an
vnusuall
way
,
and
in
time
full
of
suspition
and
partialitie
,
to
bring
in
forces
into
your
towne
of
Paris
,
and
to
seise
vpon
the
publike
places
thereof
:
yea
,
the
common
speech
is
,
that
they
hoped
,
hauing
once
become
masters
thereof
,
to
be
able
to
induce
you
to
manie
things
farre
from
your
nature
,
which
also
I
had
rather
passe
ouer
in
silence
.
The
terrour
heereof
,
sir
,
hath
forced
your
good
and
faithfull
subiectes
to
arme
themselues
,
through
a
iust
feare
,
least
by
this
meanes
the
thinges
whereof
long
before
they
were
threatned
might
bee
put
in
execution
.
But
God
of
his
holie
grace
contained
matters
in
better
staie
then
man
coulde
hope
,
and
as
it
were
miraculously
preserued
your
towne
out
of
a
most
perillous
hazarde
.
The
beginning
,
course
and
euent
of
this
matter
hath
so
iustified
my
intents
,
that
I
suppose
your
Maiestie
and
all
the
worlde
doth
thereby
cleerely
perceiue
howe
farre
my
behauiours
haue
differed
from
those
practises
,
whereof
my
slanderers
doo
seeke
to
make
mee
guiltie
.
The
manner
howe
I
did
voluntarilie
habandon
my selfe
into
your
power
,
do
shewe
what
confidence
I
reposed
in
your
goodnesse
,
and
the
sinceritie
of
my
conscience
.
The
state
wherin
I
was
found
when
I
first
vnderstood
of
this
enterprise
(
which
many
of
your
seruants
can
testifie
)
doo
sufficiently
shewe
that
I
stoode
in
no
doubt
of
being
hurt
,
neither
had
any
mind
to
enterprise
,
as
remaining
more
solitarie
and
vnarmed
in
my
house
,
then
one
of
my
calling
either
may
or
ought
to
doo
.
The
respect
that
I
haue
vsed
,
containing
my selfe
within
the
simple
bounds
of
a
iust
defence
,
may
sufficiently
testifie
vnto
you
,
that
no
occasion
whatsoeuer
,
is
able
to
make
me
fal
from
the
duetie
of
a
most
humble
subiect
.
The
paines
that
I
tooke
to
restraine
the
people
,
and
keepe
them
from
proceeding
to
those
effectes
which
such
accidents
doo
for
the
most
part
bring
in
,
do
discharge
me
from
the
slanders
heretofore
laid
vppon
mee
.
viz.
That
I
was
want
to
trouble
your
towne
of
Paris
,
My
care
to
preserue
euen
those
whome
I
knowe
to
haue
plaied
some
badde
partes
against
mee
about
you
,
by
the
prouocation
of
my
enimies
,
doo
manifestly
declare
to
euerie
man
that
I
neuer
intended
to
attempt
anie
thing
against
your
seruants
and
officers
,
as
they
haue
falsely
accused
mee
.
My
behauiours
toward
your
Suitzers
,
their
captaines
,
and
the
souldiers
of
your
guard
doo
sufficientlie
assure
you
,
that
I
neuer
feared
any
thing
so
much
,
as
to
displease
you
.
If
your
maiestie
haue
knowne
of
all
these
particularities
(
as
I
imagine
,
that
sundrie
your
good
seruants
,
louers
of
publike
quietnesse
,
who
are
witnesses
of
the
same
,
haue
not
concealed
them
from
you
)
I
doo
assuredly
thinke
that
you
are
thereby
perswaded
that
I
neuer
had
,
euen
the
least
of
those
badde
meanings
whereof
my
enimies
through
false
reportes
haue
sought
to
bring
mee
into
hatred
:
and
I
hope
sir
,
that
the
ende
wil
yeeld
more
assured
testimonie
thereof
,
as
hauing
conceiued
one
of
the
greatest
griefes
that
coulde
happen
mee
,
when
I
heard
that
your
maiesty
was
resolued
to
depart
:
because
your
so
suddeine
going
away
tooke
from
me
al
meanes
of
being
able
,
according
to
my
purpose
,
to
accommodate
euerie
thing
to
your
contentation
:
whereto
I
did
alredy
see
them
disposed
at
such
time
as
it
pleased
the
Q.
your
mother
to
come
hither
,
wherof
I
gaue
her
such
testimonies
as
I
account
she
cannot
but
thinke
to
be
certaine
.
Howbeit
sith
I
then
could
not
,
yet
will
I
sir
still
continue
the
same
minde
,
and
hope
so
to
beare
my selfe
,
that
your
maiestie
shall
iudge
me
to
be
a
most
faithfull
subiect
and
seruant
,
who
desireth
nothing
so
much
,
as
by
wel
doing
and
procuring
the
benefit
of
your
realme
to
obtaine
the
good
happe
of
your
fauour
,
which
I
will
neuer
cease
seeking
vntill
God
hath
giuen
mee
the
meanes
:
whome
I
beseech
,
sir
,
to
grant
vnto
your
Maiestie
,
&c.
From
Paris
the
17.
of
May
.
1588.
An
extract
out
of
other
letters
written
by
the
said
L.
duke
of
Guize
.
WE
had
enough
to
do
to
strengthen
our selues
against
the
sleights
daily
framed
against
vs
,
wherby
to
seeke
some
colour
not
to
passe
into
Guyenne
against
the
heretikes
:
we
went
to
satisfie
the
king
about
his
garrisons
in
Picardie
,
and
albeit
this
regiment
had
not
taken
the
countercourse
,
but
to
refresh
ancient
enmities
,
and
to
seeke
newe
contritions
,
yet
did
we
force
our
friends
for
one
moneth
,
vnprofitably
to
suffer
the
forces
of
Espernon
ouer
their
heades
,
when
afresh
for
the
greater
hinderance
,
the
said
Espernon
went
to
seeke
some
brawle
in
Normandie
,
and
there
had
he
found
it
verie
hot
,
had
not
we
,
vpon
a
desire
to
see
the
war
against
the
heretikes
proceede
,
husbanded
his
affaires
and
procured
our
friends
to
refraine
,
and
not
to
hinder
,
or
in
any
wise
to
molest
him
.
All
this
notwithstanding
,
the
more
to
entangle
vs
as
wel
through
these
superfluous
garrisons
and
lost
iournies
,
as
also
for
the
vtter
breaking
of
the
course
of
this
warre
,
and
turning
it
against
vs
,
they
framed
vs
a
match
to
our
honor
,
spreading
abroade
diuers
rumors
,
whereby
to
cause
vs
to
be
more
feared
then
the
heretikes
themselues
:
as
that
wee
delighted
in
a
massacre
at
Paris
:
That
we
purposed
to
seise
vpon
the
kings
person
:
That
we
meant
to
sacke
the
towne
,
and
so
to
leauie
coine
wherewith
to
make
warre
against
whom
we
list
,
with
manie
other
like
impressions
which
they
beate
into
his
maiesties
heade
with
the
best
colours
that
they
coulde
,
so
to
make
them
the
more
receiueable
.
This
was
their
last
sleight
,
which
also
driue
vs
into
greatest
dispaire
,
considering
that
the
king
went
about
rather
to
prouide
for
these
mistrustes
then
to
continue
the
warre
against
the
heretikes
:
also
that
our
wretchednesse
was
such
,
as
among
some
to
be
so
accounted
of
,
yea
so
farre
foorth
,
as
euen
his
holines
thereupon
tooke
an
argument
,
by
a
writing
of
his
,
to
exhort
vs
to
fidelitie
toward
the
king
our
soueraine
.
This
dispaire
,
I
say
,
at
the
last
impression
thereof
tooke
sure
hold
of
men
,
when
I
vnderstood
that
his
maiestie
strengthened
his
guarde
with
foure
ensignes
of
Frenchmen
,
and
three
of
Zwitzers
,
so
that
to
the
end
not
to
remaine
so
much
as
one
houre
in
suspition
of
so
villanous
actions
,
I
came
about
twelue
of
the
clock
into
Paris
,
accompanied
with
eight
gentlemen
,
and
through
the
middest
of
al
the
guards
aforesaid
,
I
passed
to
kisse
his
maiesties
hands
,
carying
with
me
no
other
safe
conduct
then
my
seruices
,
together
with
the
confidence
that
euery
good
subiect
ought
to
repose
in
his
king
.
This
franchise
,
sinceritie
and
open
heart
,
should
,
as
I
thought
,
haue
brought
me
a
cleare
iustification
from
all
these
passed
false
reports
.
And
in
truth
there
was
no
honest
man
but
was
glad
in
his
minde
,
as
euery
one
might
manifestly
perceaue
.
The
next
day
,
being
still
in
my
conscience
assured
,
I
was
all
the
day
about
the
king
,
sometime
inclosed
in
the
Tuilleries
,
discoursing
of
the
voyage
into
Guienne
,
&
of
this
war
,
whereto
I
was
so
affectionate
.
In
these
days
,
as
it
is
to
be
presumed
,
the
king
tooke
informations
from
all
parts
,
whither
I
had
any
greater
traine
than
the
same
that
was
seene
at
my
comming
:
Then
knowing
,
as
the
truth
was
,
that
I
was
thus
alone
,
and
had
not
so
much
as
one
man
of
warre
within
forty
leagues
of
me
,
see
,
the
very
next
morning
the
twelfth
of
May
,
there
entred
by
day
twelue
ensignes
of
Zwitzers
and
eight
ensignes
of
French
footmen
at
S.
Honors
gate
,
besides
the
foure
of
the
guard
,
the
king
&
all
his
court
being
on
horsebacke
to
receiue
them
.
The
master
of
the
campe
of
the
regiment
of
the
guards
,
and
the
Zwitzers
Colonels
were
commanded
to
go
&
seise
vpon
al
the
strengthes
of
Paris
,
and
least
they
should
finde
any
let
,
the
inhabitantes
were
from
the
one
end
of
the
towne
distributed
cleane
contrarie
to
their
quarters
,
so
to
breed
them
a
desire
to
breake
off
themselues
through
the
care
of
abandoning
their
wiues
&
children
in
such
an
accident
.
While
these
thinges
were
thus
ordered
,
I
being
a
sleepe
in
my
lodging
with
so
small
a
companie
(
for
my
traine
,
was
not
yet
come
from
Soissons
)
as
God
would
,
while
they
were
distributing
their
forces
into
so
manie
places
,
I
had
leasure
to
be
aduertised
thereof
,
and
sundry
Gentlemen
my
friends
,
being
at
Paris
about
their
affaires
,
came
vnto
me
:
but
especially
God
myraculously
stirred
vp
all
the
people
with
one
consent
to
runne
to
armes
,
and
without
any
conference
together
,
being
assured
of
my
presence
,
and
through
some
order
which
suddenlie
I
tooke
among
them
,
of
themselues
they
went
about
to
accommodate
their
affaires
,
&
on
euery
side
to
fortifie
themselues
within
tenne
paces
of
the
forreine
power
,
and
that
with
such
readines
and
vehemencie
,
that
in
lesse
than
two
houres
they
warned
the
said
troopes
presently
to
retire
out
of
the
towne
and
suburbes
.
Hereupon
also
about
the
same
time
it
chanced
in
some
quarter
a
Switzer
to
wound
a
townsman
,
wherupon
the
townesmen
fell
vpon
the
Switzers
that
were
there
,
of
whome
they
slew
some
twelue
or
fifteene
,
wounded
some
twentie
or
fiue
and
twentie
,
and
vnarmed
the
rest
.
In
an
other
place
some
companies
of
the
kinges
guardes
were
also
vnarmed
&
cast
into
the
houses
,
where
with
their
Captaines
they
were
forced
to
shut
vp
themselues
.
Here
uppon
I
marched
through
the
towne
,
and
at
my
first
comming
,
deliuered
nine
hundred
Switzers
prisoners
,
and
sundry
of
the
souldiers
of
the
guard
,
whome
I
caused
to
be
safely
conueyed
to
the
Louure
.
This
day
(
all
thinges
shining
with
the
infallible
protection
of
God
)
being
come
to
an
end
,
I
went
through
al
the
streetes
vntill
two
houres
after
midnight
,
praying
,
entreating
and
threatning
the
people
,
so
that
through
Gods
grace
there
ensued
neither
murther
,
massacre
,
pilferie
,
or
losse
of
one
pennie
,
or
of
any
one
droppe
of
bloud
ouer
and
aboue
the
aforesaid
,
albeit
the
people
were
extreemely
enuenimed
,
as
knowing
(
said
they
)
that
there
were
twentie
gibets
readie
together
with
sundrie
schaffalds
,
and
that
they
had
seene
the
executioners
of
high
Iustice
ready
to
put
to
death
a
hundred
or
sixe
score
persons
,
whom
they
named
,
and
I
had
rather
you
should
imagine
then
I
write
downe
.
I
can
not
conceale
the
great
contentation
that
this
woonderfull
grace
of
God
bredde
in
mee
.
First
,
for
that
I
see
my
hand
so
clearely
freed
from
these
suspitions
of
sacke
and
massacre
which
they
had
endeuored
to
perswade
so
manie
good
men
of
:
for
sith
I
was
able
to
performe
it
and
yet
so
happely
kept
it
from
being
knowne
,
I
thereby
stopped
all
my
enimies
mouthes
.
Secondly
,
because
I
gaue
sufficient
proofe
of
my
zeale
to
my
kings
seruice
,
and
how
in
that
I
procured
the
deliuerie
euen
of
the
weapons
which
had
beene
borne
against
my selfe
,
togither
with
their
fifes
and
droms
,
the
reconducting
of
the
prisoners
,
the
returning
of
their
ensignes
,
and
the
deliuerie
of
the
besieged
,
&
so
declined
in
no
iot
from
the
due
respect
in
matter
where
the
most
constant
might
haue
lost
it
.
Then
laboured
they
so
much
that
they
perswaded
the
king
to
depart
,
foure
and
twentie
houres
after
that
I
might
(
if
I
had
list
)
haue
staied
him
,
but
God
forbid
that
I
should
so
much
as
haue
dreamed
thereof
.
Since
his
departure
his
Maiestie
hath
had
some
other
counsaile
and
bitternesse
.
I
tooke
into
my
handes
the
Arsenall
,
the
Bastile
and
other
the
strong
places
,
and
procured
the
coffers
of
his
excheker
to
be
sealed
vp
,
to
the
end
to
consigne
the
whole
into
his
Maiesties
handes
when
he
shall
be
at
peace
,
as
wee
hope
to
yeeld
him
through
our
prayers
to
God
,
and
the
intercession
of
his
holinesse
and
all
Christian
Princes
,
and
in
respect
of
this
notable
and
not
common
proofe
of
fidelitie
which
it
hath
pleased
him
to
commit
into
my
handes
.
Otherwise
,
if
this
mischiefe
continue
,
I
hope
by
the
same
meanes
to
preserue
both
the
religion
and
the
Catholikes
,
and
to
set
them
free
from
the
persecution
which
the
heretikes
confederates
that
are
about
the
king
did
prepare
for
them
.
FINIS
.